85566 - cannot install langpacks.xpi

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 80171

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, defect)

Description

[xspuente]

I'm doing the Asturian localization, and with 0.9 I could create an installable
.xpi and open it from my hard drive. With 0.9.1 not, and neither with the blocks
in ftp.mozilla.org for 0.9.1. Is there any differences between a link and the
file.xpi? It's not everything especified under install.js? Why Mozilla doesn't
recognize as a file to open?

This bug has been tested with the German lang pack (langdeat.xpi), with the
Asturian langpack, with the Scotts, and by Neo with the Chinese langpack. The
problem is the following:
I cannot install langdeat.xpi or any other lang pack in Mozilla 0.9.1. When I
click on the langdeat.xpi or I downloaded it and try to open it with Mozilla, it
opens a window prompting me if I want to open or save the file. If I say open it
with Mozilla, it opens a new browser window and the same window prompting
appears again. It doesn't install.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Download a langpack as the landdeat.xpi from ftp.mozilla.org TO YOUR HARD
DRIVE. (Or if you are a translator, pack a lang pack to .xpi).
2. Try to open that file with Mozilla 0.9.1.
3. Expected result: to install the german lang pack.
4. Actual result: it prompts you what to do with a .xpi file, then if you chose
open with mozilla, it opens new browser window and prompts you again.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80171 ***

Comment 2

[Sebastian Späth]

yup, VRFD