Programatically installing or removing a Firefox add-on, without the notice box

Not as evil as it sounds!

This is for a corporate deployment tool. One o开发者_如何学JAVAf the things they want to do is to manage browser add-ons & plugins. UI wise, the client considers it inappropriate for a dialog to pop-up.

What I need to do is copy out xpi files to the destination systems, but how do I trigger an install.

install-global-extensions polls the user to ask permission for the install.

obviously windows, in a very uncool move, install FF add-ons without polling the user. So it's possible

You can use the windows registry to install an add-on.