287440 - unable to download extension "Auto Copy"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 290637

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

Description

[John F Davis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

The "Summary" says it all, I download the file, following all instructions save
it to disk, drag the icon to Thunderbird and it says "Invalid File" and won't
install

Note: The same extension for Firefox works great (Put me down as a "5"

And a friend of mine who's only complaint is the difficualty in posting user
comments also give sit a "5"

But he (and I) would like a linke to a "User comment" other than bugzilla so we
can rate the thing with perhaps a one or two line comment instead of a full bug

(yes this is two issues, one developer and one mozilla webmaster)

No reply needed other than "It's fixed" thanks.  I only run T-bird on this one
machine

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Download Thunderbird extension to hard drive
2.Drag and Drop the extension onto Thunderbird's window (any of them)
3.  There is no step 3

Actual Results:  
Extension refused to install,,, Every time with a "Not a valid <type> file" message

Expected Results:  
"Installed" message

Since it did not install,,, there were no secondary issues no crash, no ..
Anything at all

Tried re-downloading using a better connection, same result

Tried re-downloading again, Same result

Comment 1

[Albert Feller]

Reporter: if I undestand you, you are trying to install an extension which has
been saved to your hard disk before.
to install an extension, go to Tools-->Extensions-->Install and chose the .xpi
file which you want to install.
drag and drop might work on the "extensions" window in thunderbird, but is, as
far as i know, not supposed to work on any other window in thunderbird.
about the "User comment": this is hopefully implemented soon in addons.mozilla.org

Comment 2

[dnarby]

This is a link problem on the Mozilla Update - Extensions for Thunderbird.

The link to get Auto Copy is
https://addons.mozilla.org/core/install.php?passthrough=yes&uri=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/auto%20copy/auto_copy-0.5.0-fx+tb.xpi

This is unreachable for download by right-clicking in Firfox.

I had to get the extension from http://autocopy.mozdev.org/ , the link provided
there http://downloads.mozdev.org/autocopy/autocopy-v0.5.3.xpi 

Is right clickable and downloadable.

But it doesn't stop there:  You then have to open extensions in T-bird, then
DRAG AND DROP the file into the extension box.  It doesn't open a dialog box for
install.

Haven't even used the extension yet, I think all the downloads are actually
attempts to try and download...

Comment 3

[Albert Feller]

okay, now I understand the problem!

1. got to
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&version=1.0&id=383
2. Right-Click the link "Install Now" and choose "Save Link As..."
actual results:
a file install.php.htm (27 bytes) is downloaded. content of the file: Invalid
URI cannot Continue
expected results:
download and save the .xpi file to your hard disk

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

I think it has something to do with the space in the name.  I see the XPI in
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/auto%20copy/

Comment 5

[alanjstr]

*** Bug 288651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[alanjstr]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 290637 ***