Installing global firefox extensions
By ranjanp at 23 August, 2008, 10:35 am
It’s common for distribution creators and/or admins managing a large set of systems to install common software for users. For the Mozilla Firefox browser if you have a need to install addons that are global, this is how you do it.
The firefox command-line offers an option to do this - “-install-global-extension”
Firefox addons are downloadable as xpi files which can be extracted using zip/unzip tools. However extracting the addon xpi files using a tool like unzip is not enough as firefox needs to do a bit more than just extract the xpi file under it’s extensions folder.
So, next time you need an addon to be visible globaly, just use a simple firefox invocation
firefox -install-global-extension <your global addon>.xpi
Note the single dash in -install-global-extension!
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