289018 - File fox could not download the file at url.... because not a valid installer package

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286765

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

Description

[jim parry]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2

Can't seem to download the auto copy extention to thunderbird. It just brings up
the message: File fox could not download the file at url....  because not a
valid installer package

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on the get more extentions tab in thunderbird extention manager
2. the extentions page is brought up, click auto copy. Have tried clicking the
install button and doing a right click and a save link as.... but neither seem
to work

Actual Results:  
File fox could not download the file at url....  because not a valid installer
package

Expected Results:  
Installed the extention

Comment 1

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286765 ***

Comment 2

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

This is caused by a known bug. If you wish to download this file in the
meantime, you can use
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/extensions/auto%20copy/auto_copy-0.5.0-fx+tb.xpi