250484 - No Dialog When .xpi Install Is Prohibited

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248486

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Will Duff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.6.1 StumbleUpon/1.901
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.6.1 StumbleUpon/1.901

When the option of "Allow web sites to install software" is disabled and a web
site tries to install a .xpi file, no warning or notice is given that the
install was prohibited.  This option is available in Options -> Advanced ->
Software Update and is enabled in the default setup. This occurred in Mozilla
Firefox 0.9.1 but probably has the same results in earlier browsers.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable the option "Allow web sites to install software"
2. Open a .xpi file (such as
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7.1/shellblock.xpi)

OR

1. Disable the option "Allow web sites to install software"
2. Save a .xpi file to your hard drive
3. Open it with Mozilla Firefox 0.9.1
Actual Results:  
Nothing. No warnings were given that a .xpi file was trying to install.  Even
when a .xpi file is saved to the hard drive, it still refuses to open in Mozilla
Firefox 0.9.1.

Expected Results:  
The browser should display a notice to the user that a .xpi file was prohibited
from installing and present the user with a choice to enable the option  "Allow
web sites to install software."  Otherwise, there is no way of knowing what is
causing the interuption of the install.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to Firefox bug 248486?

Comment 2

[Will Duff]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Related to Firefox bug 248486?

Yes. I guess I didn't find that while searching. Thanks for pointing that out.  
This bug report should be closed and marked as a duplicated of bug 248486.



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248486 ***