{"id":138,"date":"2007-03-27T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/improving-add-on-installation-for-non-browser-products\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T03:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T07:24:24","slug":"improving-add-on-installation-for-non-browser-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/improving-add-on-installation-for-non-browser-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving add-on installation for non-browser products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I&#8217;d like to help draw some attention to. If you are using a Mozilla product, that is not a web browser, figuring out how to install an add-on turns into a very user-<strong>un<\/strong>friendly experience. Too many times, I&#8217;ve seen questions from Thunderbird users, wondering why the extensions they want to install are not showing up in the Thunderbird Add-ons manager; or they get a message saying the add-on is not compatible with Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s especially confusing, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/thunderbird\/addon\/71\">web page<\/a> for each Thunderbird add-on on <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/thunderbird\">AMO<\/a> has a big green &#8220;Install Now&#8221; link.<\/p>\n<p>Scott MacGregor has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Thunderbird:Extension_Installation\">wiki page for improving add-on installation<\/a> in Thunderbird, and <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird\/browse_frm\/thread\/1dc7f1fc0003b191\">posted<\/a> in the <a href=\"news:\/\/news.mozilla.org\/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird\">mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird newsgroup<\/a>. If you&#8217;ve got any ideas for a solution to the problem, please let Scott and the AMO team know about it.Meanwhile get your <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecorsetcenter.com\/shape-your-body-with-steel-boned-corsets\/\"><font color=\"#555555\">http:\/\/www.thecorsetcenter.com\/shape-your-body-with-steel-boned-corsets\/<\/font><\/a> discount by using the free promo coupon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I&#8217;d like to help draw some attention to. If you are using a Mozilla product, that is not a web browser, figuring out how to install an add-on turns into a very user-unfriendly experience. Too many times,&hellip;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/2007\/03\/improving-add-on-installation-for-non-browser-products\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-thunderbird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ilias.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}