1882328 - Unable to install `.XPI` file via external application (like file manager).

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: WebExtensions, enhancement)

Description

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

I invoked https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/4233394/bitwarden_password_manager-2024.2.0.xpi via an external file manager. Of note was that even com.android.documentsui (https://source.android.com/docs/core/ota/modular-system/documentsui) acted as all others did.

Actual results:

Fenix was not registered as its MIME-type handler.

Expected results:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814123#c0 referred to https://stackoverflow.com/a/9309629/9731176, not https://developer.android.com/training/data-storage/shared/documents-files#open-file despite what https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1814123#c2 states, so this issue should be remediated.

Comment 1

[jackyzy823]

It was supported in bug 1866293

Comment 2

[Delia Pop (Android QA)]

Thank you for submitting this. I'll mark this ticket as "NEW".

Comment 3

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882328#c1

[e-mail], it was not, as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882328#c0 describes. That installation method utilizes the Fenix GUI to instantiate the OS file picker GUI. It does not integrate with the OS file type association mechanism.