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From: Beeblebrox <zphod@berentweb.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: every time mozilla ports update disables xpi's
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>Number:         168574
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       every time mozilla ports update disables xpi's
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gecko
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 02 15:10:14 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jun 25 08:11:01 UTC 2012
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jun 25 08:11:01 UTC 2012
>Originator:     Beeblebrox
>Release:        9-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0 r235991: Sat May 26 14:20 amd64
>Description:
very single upgrade of mozilla-based ports (firefox/seamonkey) breaks
installed xpi extensions. XPI's need to be re-installed (make deinstall/
reinstall) every time. Granted, I now have a script for this, but ftw?
Why do the www/xpi-* ports even exist then?
>How-To-Repeat:
Upgrade Firefox/Seamonkey
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->miwi 
Responsible-Changed-By: miwi 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jun 4 02:27:21 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll take it. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168574 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: miwi->freebsd-gecko 
Responsible-Changed-By: miwi 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jun 4 02:28:03 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168574 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-gecko->gecko 
Responsible-Changed-By: eadler 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Jun 25 04:52:19 UTC 2012 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
canconical address 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168574 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: beat 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jun 25 08:09:18 UTC 2012 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mozilla changed the policy to disable globally installed plugins by 
default. See: 
http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/08/11/strengthening-user-control-of-add-ons/ 

As far as I know there is no workaround to disable this "feature" at the 
moment. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168574 
>Unformatted:
