252571 - Thunderbird extensions attempt to install in Firefox and crash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216653

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Greg Tenni]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 0.7.2 (20040707)

Trying to install extensions in Thunderbird.
Using Tools/Extensions/Get More Extensions
Extensions page opens -
http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&id=70&vid=75
When I click on "Install Now", I get the following error message:
[Name of extension] could not be installed because it is not compatible with
this version of Firefox. ([Name of extension] will only work with Firefox (null))

Looks to me like it's trying to install it in Firefox rather than Thunderbird,
because the Firefox extension box appears just before the error message.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Thunderbird/Tools/Extensions/Get more extensions
2. Select an extension and click "Install now"
3. Kablooey!! Eror message as above

Actual Results:  
As described

Expected Results:  
Extension should install and be visible in Thunderbird extension info box.

Same problem running under Windows XP on different machine.

Comment 1

[Adam Hauner]

Could you provide TalkBack incident ID?

Comment 2

[jwq]

If there is no crash associated with this bug report then it looks like a
duplicate of Bug 216653. Greg: did your Firefox application crash?

Comment 3

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

see http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216653#c1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216653 ***