Downloading of more than one extention at a time.

Post by **bdeonline** » December 21st, 2002, 9:25 pm

Here is an idea, How about a kind of like windows update to install extentions. Like have a check box next to the extentions and when you are done selecting the extentions you want you click a submit button and it installs all of the extentions that you have choosen at one time.

Stefan · Post by **Stefan** » December 21st, 2002, 11:19 pm

There are some plans for this, but I guess they will only appear closer to a 1.0 release.

Post by **old Neil Parks** » December 21st, 2002, 11:55 pm

Great idea for the future if they can do it. But right now, for best results, you should exit and restart after downloading each extension.

LayZ · Post by **LayZ** » December 22nd, 2002, 7:36 am

It should be possible.

When Netscape 6.0 came out Netscape had a very similar page at http://home.netscape.com/smartupdate/

(there also used to be a different version of this at the same URL for Netscape 4.x browsers)

However, that disappeared before 6.1, so I'm guessing it didn't work 100% reliably all the time, but the idea of the site was nice and it's a shame that they never worked on ironing out the bugs, instead they just got rid of the site.

What was nice about this page was it could detect which NS 6 components that you had installed and allowed you to install additional components (e.g. Mail, AIM) at a later date, when 6.01 came out it also allowed you to update using smartupdate, rather than downloading a new .exe

As Phoenix uses the same xpi install as NS 6/7 and Mozilla this shows that such a page would be possible and would allow easy addition of extensions on phoenix.