I was troubleshooting a browser image plugin that would not install, and found a few interesting things:
1. There was no indication that an error was preventing the installer from completing. Message says it completed successfully. Fail.
2. After running the installer step manually from the command line I could see the error, which was simply that the path it was trying to install the plugin didn't exist (Firefox plugins directory). This is a fairly new install of Firefox. It worked after I created the directory, but the installer should have handled this. Fail.
3. After installing, the version of the plugin in the browser showed as different from the installer version, making it difficult to determine when to update. Fail.
Of course I contacted the plugin's site to fix these and hopefully do better testing for their next release.
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