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The MIME type approach has a serious down side not anticipated in my prior remarks. During discussion in mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird the issue of mirrors being used to serve add-on's was brought up. To be workable, way too much redundancy would be required and the load on mirrors would more than double. Thus my thinking turns out to be unworkable. | The MIME type approach has a serious down side not anticipated in my prior remarks. During discussion in mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird the issue of mirrors being used to serve add-on's was brought up. To be workable, way too much redundancy would be required and the load on mirrors would more than double. Thus my thinking turns out to be unworkable. | ||
What has become possible is a "Drag and Drop" ability to drag the link from the AMO site onto the Thunderbird Add-on Manager to initiate install of an extension or theme. Alternatively, those who want an archive copy can drag and drop to a desktop first and then install from there. | What has become possible is a "Drag and Drop" ability to drag the link from the AMO site onto the Thunderbird Add-on Manager to initiate install of an extension or theme. Alternatively, those who want an archive copy can drag and drop to a desktop first and then install from there.<br> | ||
--[[User:Killjay|Ron K.]] 16:55, 9 April 2008 (PDT) | --[[User:Killjay|Ron K.]] 16:55, 9 April 2008 (PDT) | ||