Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3349 mails)

[Richard Atcheson <ratcheson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 13 May 2005 19:48, Jon Nelson wrote:
> I've recently noticed that the 'Update' button is missing from the
> Extensions dialog in firefox.  Furthermore, I've noticed that the
> firefox I get from www.mozilla.org /does/ have the Update button, but
> the versions I've gotten from suse do not, and I include the "stock"
> version supplied by suse as well as the one supplied by the 'mozilla'
> supplemental.
>
> Does anybody have any insight into where my Update button has gone?
> I have MozillaFirefox-1.0.4-0.1 installed, and the 1.0.4 version from
> mozilla.org.  The same behavior existed with 1.0.3
> with version MozillaFirefox-1.0.3-1.1.
>

I think it is a security measure.  You now download the extension then go to 
the download and install it, then you get the Update button.  Guess it gives 
you a chance to be sure you really trust the thing and maybe keep the bad 
guys from putting nasties in your machine.

ra