320061 - Cant download/install themes (Walnut by Kayser;) I get the 'software install disabled' thingy

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 310737

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[gravdigr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

When trying to "install theme now" I get the 'software installation currently disabled...click 'edit options' to enable it & try again' at the top of page.  I do this (content..'warn me when websites' etc..add site to 'allow' list (calls for typing EXACT web address, but EXACT address does not appear in list) and things do not change).  Also when closing Firefox, I get warning for canceling "x" number of downloads, "x" = number of times I tried to install theme (any theme  btw).  Check download manager, nothing shown.  To close manager, I have to 'x' the pane however many times I tried to install theme.  Checked the bug reports, but I may as well have been tryng to read Sanskrit, too technical for me.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanx.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Pick theme, any theme from 'addons.mozilla.org/themes'-->'Install now'
2.'software installation currently disabled...click 'edit options' to enable it & try again'
3.click 'edit options' add website to 'allow list'.  No Change.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.  Theme is not dowloaded/installed.

Expected Results:  
As in 'my' previous version of Firefox, the theme should have magically appeared upon restarting Firefox.

If I try five times (or any other number of times) to download theme, later when closing Firefox, I get a warned that I'm canceling that many downloads.  When I check the download manager, there are no pending downloads shown.  Upon closing the manager pane, it stays there until I click the little x in the upper left corner the same number of times.

Comment 1

[Ryan Flint [:rflint] (ping via IRC for reviews)]

Type about:config into the address bar, then find the entry titled xpinstall.enabled and set it to true.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310737 ***

Comment 3

[gravdigr]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Type about:config into the address bar, then find the entry titled
> xpinstall.enabled and set it to true.
> Many thanx '[e-mail]' for the xpinstall.enabled tip.  Worked like a charm, loaded Kayser's walnut theme right up.  Great theme btw.  Thanx again, Gravdigr