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Rigoxls
Rigoxls

Reputation: 2467

updateURL and updateLink don't work in my addon

I was reading the cfx tool documentation, about how to create an addon and make it autoupdade automaticaly. Unfortunately when I compile my addon to an xpi file with this line:

cfx xpi --update-link "http://mypage.com/firefox/latest"
        --update-url "http://mypage.com/firefox/update_rdf"

I always get complains that the resulting xpi file is incompatible with Firefox 12.0. When I remove the --update-link and --update-url arguments the xpi file works. Am I missing something?

I saw this answer but unfortunately that solutions didn't work for me.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 219

Answers (1)

Wladimir Palant
Wladimir Palant

Reputation: 57671

Two things you should do:

  1. Make sure you are using the latest version of the Add-on SDK. Add-on SDK 1.7 declares the add-ons as compatible with Firefox 12 and 13, previous versions didn't.
  2. Make sure to upload the generated update.rdf file to http://mypage.com/firefox/update_rdf, you probably have an older file there. This file also contains compatibility information for the extension and Firefox trusts this information more than install.rdf inside the extension (this is useful to mark an extension as compatible with a newer Firefox version without actually updating the extension package).

Upvotes: 1

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