sense of packaging firefox' addons?

[Andrew Farris]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:30:49PM -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>> And most users would rather not wait for their administrator to get around 
>> to their station to deploy a new addon they found out about, which is 
> 
> Why would the administrator have to go anywhere to do this?

My point was that it will take *much longer* to get done than if the user can 
simply click an .xpi and restart their browser.  Frankly, if you set aside 
security or stability concerns, it seems like a *major waste* to go to the 
effort of packaging extensions.  The existing framework for their deployment 
works very well.

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