Support Firefox 8: Re-enable pre-installed addons

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_8_for_developers looks Mostly Harmless. This shouldn't be too painful.

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Seems like one would get ioerror's --disable-necko-disk-cache in ticket #4280 (moved) here for free as according to the above linked document the build option --necko-disk-cache got removed. But, on the other hand that could just mean that one cannot disable/enable that cache anymore, i.e. it is enabled by default...

Replying to gk:

Seems like one would get ioerror's --disable-necko-disk-cache in ticket #4280 (moved) here for free as according to the above linked document the build option --necko-disk-cache got removed. But, on the other hand that could just mean that one cannot disable/enable that cache anymore, i.e. it is enabled by default...

Heh, yeah, I saw that.. I just checked my FF8 source though, and --disable-necko-disk-cache still seems to be an option. Very weird.

There was an issue with https://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/08/11/strengthening-user-control-of-add-ons/ disabling all of our addons. We fixed it by setting pref extensions.autoDisableScopes to 0.

The Mozilla bug for the feature was https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476430

Since we already restrict our use of system addons by using extensions.enabledScopes, we don't expect the security impact to be significant.

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Status: new to closed
Summary: Support Firefox 8 to Support Firefox 8: Re-enable pre-installed addons
Cc: N/A to erinn, gk
Resolution: N/A to fixed
Actualpoints: N/A to 3

closed

changed time estimate to 24h

added 24h of time spent

mentioned in issue #31569 (moved)

mentioned in issue tpo/applications/tor-browser#41496 (closed)