Just a few “basic” questions that I can’t seem to find the answers to.
On FireFox for Android:
How does the auto update for addons work? How often does it check?
Can I manually check for addon updates?
TIA
SubDevo
EDIT: This may not be the correct board for this question. If so, please let me know.
@SubDevo I don’t think it was a stupid question - I didn’t know Firefox checked for add-on updates every 24 hours.
If you really want the thread deleted, I can still do that, but it’s possible someone else might come here wanting to ask the same question, and find your answer first, saving them the effort!
Does the extension auto-update only happen on Wi-Fi and/or mobile data as well? I can’t seem to find any documentation or settings to adjust this.
I’m planning to build an extension which will have several images packed into the XPI to speed up load times on each page reload, and it would suck for users on mobile data to get a 1MB update…
There is no update settings for wifi/data for the extension level. You can control app updates on the Android platform. Extensions will update regardless of wifi/data - from what I recall, things might have changed.
If you aren’t making a webextension, I would say hold off on the Android extension, the future for Android is very unclear, you will most likely end up wasting your time on it as they ban non-webextension addons on Android.