280402 - Theme Install Instruction for thunderebird users does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275900

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Stephen Clothier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

On the "Install theme" area of the Nautical Theme for Thunderbird the following
instruction leads to the downloading of the cgi-bin/install.php file and not the
intended theme jarfile:
 
(1) Right-Click the link above and choose "Save Link As..." to Download and save
the file to your hard disk.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Thunderbird, select Tools->Themes->"Get more themes"
2. When taken to the Thems apge in a Firefox window, select " ThiunderBird
Themes" and then "Nautical for Thunderbird"
3. On the resulting page you will find, below the "install now" link, a heading
"Theme Install Instructions for Thunderbird Users".
4. Beneath this heading, execute the first instruction...
(1) Right-Click the link above and choose "Save Link As..." to Download and save
the file to your hard disk.


Actual Results:  
The link being right clicked is as follows:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/core/install.php?passthrough=yes&uri=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/themes/nautical_for_thunderbird/nautical-0.6.0-tb.jar
Saving the link saves the install.php file.

Expected Results:  
The follwoing link should have been saved...
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/themes/nautical_for_thunderbird/nautical-0.6.0-tb.jar

Workaround:
When right clicking as in instruction 1) (above), click  "copy link location".
Paste the link into the browser and edit out the link (removing the preamble to
install.php, so it reads ....
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/themes/nautical_for_thunderbird/nautical-0.6.0-tb.jar

Fetch the contents and "Save As" from the firefox File menu.

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275900 ***