256179 - Installing Calendar from the Thunderbird extensions page installs calendar to Firefox, not Thunderbird

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Ross Becker]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3

I have both firefox version 0.9.3 and thunderbird 0.7.3 installed on my system.
I used the web page at "get more extensions" from the Thunderbird extensions
dialog, chose the "calendar" extension, clicked to install. When calendar
installed, it was installed for firefox, not for thunderbird. I verified several
times that I was attempting to install from the thunderbird extensions web page,
not from the firefox extensions web page.

The only way I was able to install calendar for thunderbird was to "save to
disk" the XPI for calendar, open the thunderbird extensions dialog, click
"install", then choose the file I saved to my system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
I tried installing by left-clicking on the web link several times after calendar
had already installed for firefox. 

Actual Results:  
It appeared to overwrite the calendar installed for firefox, and never installed
calendar for thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Mostafa Hosseini]

*** Bug 256181 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Please see:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/download.html#install_tb

Comment 3

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Invalid...

If an extension which works both for TB and for FF is browsed to in FF, and you
try to "Open" in firefox, it will assume you are trying to install to FF...

It is a UMO/User bug, not a calendar one...

The solution, drag the link to TB's Extension Manager, or save to disk...Our FAQ
details how to install into TB.

Comment 4

[Ross Becker]

I feel that this is very much a valid bug. I heard about calendar, and attempted
to install calendar for TB through TB's standard "extensions" UI. I never saw
the web page with your extended installation instructions, and the standard UI
did not work as designed or documented. 

Documentation in a separate location that the UI will not work the same for
installing this as it does for every other extension does not truly constitute a
resolution to the bug.

If you close this bug again, I won't argue further, but please reconsider it in
this light.

Comment 5

[Mostafa Hosseini]

Have you installed other extensions in thunderbird?

Comment 6

[Ross Becker]

Yep, I had installed other TB extensions, but it appears that there's new text
on the installation web page for all TB extensions- this appeared since the last
time I attempted to install them.  It significantly alleviates this issue. No
more arguments from me.

Comment 7

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

With no more arguments I'll re-resolve/Invalid... Though I will CC Wolf (the
lead on UMO) to be sure he has a peek at the issue you presented, though I'm not
sure if there is really anything more he can do. (The text is pretty
self-explainatory now)

Comment 8

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Unfortunately at the current time there's not much I can do to force Tbird to
get the install trigger, or to prevent firefox from trying. I agree that it's a
problem, but one with no known solutions at this time. Sorry.

Comment 9

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Mass move of all Installer bugs to General per ctalbert.

Comment 10

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

The bugspam monkeys have been set free and are feeding on Calendar :: General. Be afraid for your sanity!