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==Core Needs== | |||
* Plan | |||
* Better data about plugin versions (updates and access to user's plugins) | |||
* Better update process | |||
==Solutions/Ideas== | |||
* Roadmap - long and short term plan | |||
* Get plugin vendors to contact us about updates | |||
* Get navigator.plugins.version into all browsers | |||
* Agree on common version format (major, minor, dot, release, etc) | |||
* Poll plugin vendor apis for updates to plugins | |||
* Update manager for plugins in Firefox | |||
* Download installers for plugins in Firefox and run them | |||
* Move update checker to plugins.mozilla.org | |||
* Move PFS2 to AMO | |||
* Deprecate PFS | |||
==Open questions and bugs== | |||
* Linux FF has empty version # | |||
* Adobe Reader doesn't look up to date according to newer update pings | |||
* Director/Shockwave not detected properly | |||
* What does original versus * mean for detection | |||
* Should we re-open PFS2 | |||
* Java bugs | |||
==Problems== | ==Problems== | ||
* Lack of direction/plan | * Lack of direction/plan | ||
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* No test process for updates to version #'s on plugin checker | * No test process for updates to version #'s on plugin checker | ||
* Vendors want in on PFS and PFS2, currently no process or blocked | * Vendors want in on PFS and PFS2, currently no process or blocked | ||