If we could identify some of the more popular add-ons that meet this criteria I can add it to my test plan. I'll be testing this in Nightly on Tuesday.
Anthony Hughes QA Engineer, Desktop Firefox Mozilla Corporation ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dave Townsend" <dtowns...@mozilla.com> > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 9:17:04 AM > Subject: Re: Upcoming separation between resource://app and resource://gre > > On 2/8/2013 7:11 AM, Matt Brubeck wrote: > > On 2/7/2013 6:12 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> - But really, what does it change for developers? > >> > >> Almost nothing they shouldn't be doing already. The main > >> difference is > >> that resource://app/ and resource://gre/ urls are not going to > >> point to > >> the same location anymore, which means I won't have to file bugs > >> about > >> $randomFile including resource://gre/modules/something.jsm instead > >> of > >> resource://app/modules/something.jsm. > > > > This seems like a major add-on compatibility issue. Has anyone > > looked > > into how many add-ons will now have incorrect resource: URIs? How > > can > > we scan for these, and how can we mitigate the breakage? > > Any add-ons that get broken by thins would have already been broken > when > used on most linux distributions. That said we could search the > add-ons > mxr for instances of common gre modules in use without the prefix. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
