170271 - Software install dialog should offer "download" in addition to "install" and "cancel"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 47805

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, enhancement)

Description

[Craig Ringer]

It seems to me that it would be helpful to offer a "download" or "save to disk"
button in addition to the "install" and "cancel" buttons in the xpinstall
dialog. Usually the user can just right-click on a link to an xpi file - but
often buttons or JavaScript calls are used to start the install, where it isn't
so easy to get the xpi manually - one has to go digging through the source of a
page. Its all well and good if mozilla is installed in a user's home directory,
but for server-wide installs it is a pain.

Alternately xpinstall could detect that mozilla is running as a normal user
without write permission to MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME and automatically change the
"install" button to "download", explaining that mozilla must then be run as root
(or the permissions changed) to get the install option. (it'd have to be aimed
at the saved xpi file, too).

If mozilla ever gets the option to install xpi files local to the user (ie in
their .mozilla/) when running installed server-wide, perhaps the dialog could
read (and function as):

"Install" "Download" "Cancel"

(where install would be explained in the dialog to install for the current user
only.)

Sorry if I've ended up filing _another_ dup. I frequently can't find a related
bug - but have looked.

Comment 1

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

confirming bug

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47805 ***