845435 - Firefox UX 22a1 says "this is not a valid install package" when trying to install

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect, P5)

Description

[rexyrexy2]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130220 Firefox/21.0
Build ID: 20130220040207

Steps to reproduce:

ran installer of firefox UX 22a1


Actual results:

this is not a valid install package was displayed, upon extracting with 7zip, I could start* the browser just fine

*=going to make another bug for crashing issues


Expected results:

The installer should have installed the update(though it crashes frequently*)

*=going to make bug for crash, not part of this bug

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

What application and steps did you use to download?

Comment 2

[rexyrexy2]

downloaded installer manually, since auto update was not working (thank god that it didn't install, otherwise the crash bug would be there, and I would rage...since I love the Australis theme)

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

(In reply to rexyrexy2 from comment #2)
> downloaded installer manually, since auto update was not working (thank god
> that it didn't install, otherwise the crash bug would be there, and I would
> rage...since I love the Australis theme)
Manually downloaded using Firefox or a different application?

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

No response to comment #3 in almost a year. Resolving -> wfm