Feature changed by: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) Feature #306475, revision 6 Title: modify Firefox' plugin finder service to search and install from openSUSE repos openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) Description: Firefox' plugin finder service searches for missing plugins at mozilla. org and can't provide useful things usually for Linux. The plugin finder service should be improved to know about plugins available for openSUSE and should invoke an installer on request. Discussion: #1: Wolfgang Rosenauer (wrosenauer) (2009-06-25 08:39:51) A short overview what's needed to make this feature as complete as possible: 1) client support in Firefox to ask a webservice for available plugins and hook into the package installer to install the chosen plugin 2) a webservice which provides the required data to Firefox 3) a job which fills the webservice's database with available plugins The code for 1. and 2. is done in the Firefox extension "susefox" now. It's already pretty complete and usable (only some minor issues left and translations missing). For 2. a hosting platform is needed where I'm not sure if it should be opensuse.org or opensuse-community.org as we could refer to more plugins for the latter probably. For 3. nothing is really available yet. The reason is that our package metadata is missing information we would need to detect mozilla plugins. For the current implementation the database is created manually but I consider this pretty much impossible for a production service. + #2: Drew Kwashnak (dragonbite) (2009-07-08 17:49:42) + Some of the plugins (Flash, Java) could have a pre-associated + repository it installs jsut for that one installation and then closes + it, or if the vendor has a repository then maybe it would connect (and + keep) to their repository so updates will be checked for automatically. + Providing a list of open source and proprietary choces will help inform + users of FOSS alternatives they may otherwise not know of or think + about. + Ubuntu has a great implementation of this in Firefox. I have not tried + "susefox" but in my recent installation of openSUSE 11.1 Gnome there + was nothing helpful regarding installing Firefox plugins. + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306475