1373962 - Thunderbird theme gets added to Firefox not Thunderbird when using Firefox on Mozilla's addon/theme website.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Dean Edridge [:deanedridge]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170617030206

Steps to reproduce:

I went to both of the following sites using Firefox and clicked on the add button of the Thunderbird theme suggestions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/themes/?src=thunderbird 

And on this website I clicked on the "Add to Thunderbird" button.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/ladybug_red/

Here are the details of the Thunderbird install I have:
    Name: Thunderbird
    Version: 54.0b3
    Build ID: 20170531163242
    Update History: Show Update History
    Update Channel: beta
    User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/54.0
    OS: Darwin 16.6.0
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Here's the details of the Firefox install I have, in case it is relevant:

Name: Firefox
Version: 56.0a1
Build ID: 20170617030206
Update Channel: nightly
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
OS: Darwin 16.6.0
Multiprocess Windows: 1/1 (Enabled by default)
Google Key: Found
Mozilla Location Service Key: Found
Safe Mode: true

Both Thunderbird and Firefox were running with addons disabled.


Actual results:

The theme gets installed on Firefox, not Thunderbird.



Expected results:

The selected new theme should have been added to my Thunderbird app but was added to Firefox.

Comment 1

[Dean Edridge [:deanedridge]]

Note: I am able to enable and disable the themes I have installed. These were installed into my profile when I was using the release version of Thunderbird a few weeks ago.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Please report issues related to the AMO website here: https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/new

Moving this bug to the Firefox queue for now.

In general, it's better to download a theme and then install it in Thunderbird.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Hmm, well, haven't you closed this too quickly?

Please go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/ladybug_red/ and see that is says: "Add to Thunderbird". If you click on the button, the theme gets added to FF. So something isn't right.

Apparently this theme is also available for FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ladybug_red/

Comment 4

[Dean Edridge [:deanedridge]]

This person seems to have had a similar problem. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1009011

Comment 5

[Dean Edridge [:deanedridge]]

I'm not able to download the theme. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to be able to download TB themes so didn't mention it.

Comment 6

[Dean Edridge [:deanedridge]]

I have reported this issue to the addon department on Github:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons/issues/425