Emulation of upgrading process for Embedded webextension

mester · August 3, 2017, 6:13am

Hello. Is there any way to emulate upgrading process for Embedded webextension?

yfdyh000 · August 3, 2017, 2:11pm

What do you want to emulate? You can install add-ons, new profile or refresh the Firefox to clear the data, use each release versions on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/.

mester · August 4, 2017, 3:52am

I need to create upgrade behavior. So browser.runtime.onInstalled with reason update will be fired

juraj.masiar · January 15, 2018, 7:19pm

I need this too. Is there a way to simulate upgrade of extension?

freaktechnik · January 15, 2018, 10:36pm

If you do not have an embedded WebExtension, you can simply simulate this by installing a newer version with about:debugging.

juraj.masiar · January 17, 2018, 1:53pm

Thank you.
I will test this next time.
I realized my use-case actually requires running code only in some upgrades (when I upgrade my data-structure) so I’m using now the technique with storing “dataVersion” value in storage.