Re: Making extensions available to multiple GRE applications

Sailfish <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpinstall
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
>  > Is your plan to allow them to be installed in an arbitrary directory or
>  > would they still need to be off a chrome root (installation/profile)?
> 
> New-style extensions would install in arbitrary locations, which would 
> *always* be outside a chrome root. For example, JSlib might install 
> itself (on win32) in "C:\Program Files\Common Data\mozdev.org\JSlib\1.1" 
> or something like that. (Old-style extensions that don't know about this 
> new extension scheme would still install themselves in the application 
> chrome/components directories).
> 
Hmmm, doesn't that open the security gates a bit more, i.e., allowing an 
XPI to add (replace?) files outside of the Mozilla domain like, say, 
into the Windows directory?

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