283809 - cannot install extensions

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[neil]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Thunderbird 1.0

You cannot install extensions for Thunderbird. xpi files will install to Firefox
as you would expect, however when you follow the instructions on the extensions
website to right-click and save link as, all it ever does is try to save a file
setup.php. i've tried renaming it to .xpi but it doesn't work.

Clearly someone has completely cocked it up with regard to Thunderbird extensions.

Why not either put in a proper link so you can right-click and save or give
thunderbird extensions a different file name, e.g. .xpt or something? I could do
the right-click/save link with the dictionaries at the mozilla site but not for
any on the extensions page.


Neil.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.as details section
2.for any extension in the 'get new extensions' option in Thunderbird
3.

Actual Results:  
you get a setup.php file

Expected Results:  
gave me the xpi file.

the mozilla dictionary plugins do work so clearly there is something either
wrong with the way the urls are formed on the extension page or the way you
bundle all extensions as one thing.

Comment 1

[Jeongkyu Kim]

This is a bug of update site, dup of bug 275900 .

Comment 2

[Jeongkyu Kim]

By the way, it seems that this problem still exists on update site. I have no
clue to the fact that bug 275900 was marked as fixed.

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Reporter: Is this still a problem? Here it also downloads a file named
install.php, but i can rename it and install it into Thunderbird.

Comment 4

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

no response-->wfm