Compare your installed Firefox or Thunderbird extensions to one or more directories of saved XPI extensions.
This is a command line java application, needing the Java Runtime version 1.5 or higher installed.
I wrote this little utility to scratch an itch. Between my work computers and home family computers I maintain Firefox and Thunderbird installations on about four different machines (three actually, but one of this is duel boot).
Thus, instead of installing extensions directly into my browser or email client, I tended to save the XPI files to a directory and install them from there.
As the number of extensions grow, the task of checking each machine had the latest version of each extension grew tedious, and this utility was the result.
To run this application, at the command line prompt type in:
java -jar extaudit.jar
This will give you the command line options as follows:
Usage: ( -f | -t | -D <dir> ) [ -d | -p <name> ] [ -v | -u ] [ -r ] <dir> ...
-f : List for Firefox.
-t : List for Thunderbird.
-D <dir> : Find installed extensions in the specified directory.
-d : Use default profile.
-p <name> : Use specified profile name.
-v : Verbose. List all extensions, installed or not.
-u : Don't list XPI files for exts that are not installed (update only).
-r : Recursively search sub-directories for XPI files.
If you only have one profile in Firefox or Thunderbird, then don't worry about the -d or -p options, just specify -f or -t as appropriate.
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