[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] XUL Extensions policy directory question

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:58:16PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> One concern raised by mozilla on a canonical location for _all_
> extensions that only work for some targetapplications - and why we
> probably do not want to put everything in common - is that startup
> performance will get a hit for nothing if an app has to parse extensions
> that are not going to work anyway.

The startup performance hit should only apply after an extension has been
installed. Not in other cases.

Mike