[Flashblock] Flashblock and Firefox 1.5

[Lorenzo Colitti]

Hi all,

with Firefox 1.5 about to come out, we need to make it easy for people 
with 1.5 to install and use Flashblock. So:

The most obvious thing we need to do is have a simple installation page. 
The current one is rather complicated. Do we need two versions (1.3.3a 
and 1.3.2) or is just one enough? If one is enough, all we need there is 
one big "Install Flashblock" link. We can call it Flashblock 1.5 so 
there's no confusion.

We need to take care that Firefox 1.0.x users who already have 
Flashblock installed don't trash their browser by upgrading to a newer 
version. I suggest we do this by requiring a minVersion of 1.5 for 
Flashblock 1.5. Once Firefox 1.5 comes out, if people insist on using 
Firefox 1.0.x, well, they can just use the old version.

Once this is done and Flashblock 1.5 is packaged and tested we should 
upload it to Mozilla Update and remove the v1.2.9 that's currently 
there. The minVersion of 1.5 should stop Firefox 1.0.x from 
automatically upgrading, and again, if people insist on using Firefox 
1.0.x they can come to flashblock.mozdev.org.

Thoughts?

Note: this is obviously Firefox-centric because I don't use anything 
else. Phil, what do we need to do for other browsers? I suppose recent 
versions of Seamonkey should be fine, but what about Camino and 
K-meleon? I don't give a hoot about Netscape 8, I won't be sorry if we 
drop it.


Cheers,
Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Colitti                          http://www.colitti.com/lorenzo/