Adblock Plus Combo

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:13 am

There exists a new ability to package multiple extensions and themes into one installable file. For those interested I've done this with Adblock Plus and Adblock Filterset.G Updater. Note this requires Firefox 1.5 beta 1 or later. See here or here for more details.

Adblock Plus Combo

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Updated to contain Adblock Plus 0.5.10 and Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.2.5.

g · Post by g » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:00 am

I'm confused; what is this "Adblock Plus Combo"?

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:55 am

I had just read w.o.o.m post, about a new ability to package multiple themes and/or extensions into a single xpi file. I'm just experimenting and have put Adblock Plus and the Filterset.G Updater extension into such a xpi file. Nothing really flash as it will only work on the trunk builds after Deer Park Alpha 2 and all it does is install both extensions together which are still listed seperately under extensions manager.

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 3:51 pm

This is a kewl feature for Firefox though, as you could install packs of your favorite extensions. I'm going to have to read up on this and see if I can do it.

If you are like me and have several extensions.. installing them one at a time every time you have to redo a profile or reformat is a pain. I like this idea.

I hope you don't have to be a programmer to do it.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:13 pm

IceDogg wrote:If you are like me and have several extensions.. installing them one at a time every time you have to redo a profile or reformat is a pain. I like this idea.

I use the beta version of MR Tech's Local Install to do that. It provides the functionality that you seem to need and it sounds like it might be easier and more flexible than creating a custom install pack.

IceDogg · Post by **IceDogg** » Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:34 pm

thanks Alan, I'll look into it.

mcm · Post by **mcm** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 1:49 am

If you have the xpi files for the extensions you've always been able to install multiple extensions at the same time, although not for themes, the trick is to drag them all onto the extensions window instead of the browser window.

But what you can now do which is really useful for redoing a profile is simply copy the extensions folder from your old profile to your new. On startup it detects all the extensions and loads them. You can read more about it here.
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/008066.html

Bobby_Peru · Post by **Bobby_Peru** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:29 pm

It will also greatly help simplify getting new, non-proximate, non-tinkering, users up and running. That will be great!