Updated-Win32Nightly Build Dec 29 Won't Install XPI Package

Jedi Knight · Post by **Jedi Knight** » December 29th, 2002, 11:12 am

Tab browser extension package won't install, Phoenix will download it instead. Anyone else has this problem? Or it's just me?

Update: Fixed in Jan 26 build!

Authorised User · Post by **Authorised User** » December 29th, 2002, 1:21 pm

Yep, same problem. Clicking on an XPI link does nothing. As a quick fix I associated the MIME type with Phoenix. Now it wants to download XPI files.

Yes, I was bad and lazy. I simply installed the new nightly build over my 0.5 release. I'll try a clean install and report back if that fixes the problem.

AU

Authorised User · Post by **Authorised User** » December 29th, 2002, 1:38 pm

Clean install did not fix the problem. I'll go back one build to 20021228.

AU

ehume · Post by **ehume** » December 29th, 2002, 2:25 pm

Confirming with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021229 Phoenix/0.5, clean new install directory and new profile.

2002-12-28 allowed drag-and-drop install of xpi files. 2002-12-29 not only does not allow dnd xpi installation, it also does not allow ctrl-o installation of xpi files. This was due to a Mozilla regression last time.

Ed

mesostinky · Post by **mesostinky** » December 30th, 2002, 3:30 pm

Anyone know the bug number for this? It's still in Phoenix 20021230 build win32.

willll · Post by **willll** » December 30th, 2002, 3:36 pm

Post by **old Neil Parks** » December 30th, 2002, 10:31 pm

See also:

http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewt ... highlight=

http://www.mozillazine.org/forums/viewt ... highlight=

mesostinky · Post by **mesostinky** » December 31st, 2002, 10:35 am

20021231 win32 also can't install any xpi's. This is both at mozdev and texturizer and xpi's I download and then try to drag and drop. Are only a few of us seeing this or what? As an aside the menu's at www.nvidia.com don't work as well.

BTW this appears to be the correct bug http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=187126

shill · Post by **shill** » December 31st, 2002, 11:56 am

This bug is confirmed with me, I still can't install any XPI's with ANY mehtod, whether it's dragging and dropping, or trying to install from a javascript auto-install link.

EDIT: Does this bug only exist on Windows XP?

Post by **old Neil Parks** » December 31st, 2002, 5:20 pm

chocoba65 wrote:Does this bug only exist on Windows XP?

I'm encountering it in Win ME.

flii · Post by **flii** » December 31st, 2002, 5:54 pm

i get it on the 12-30 nightly on winme, too.

kopa · Post by **kopa** » January 1st, 2003, 3:57 am

I can confirm this bug for 12-29 and 12-30 nightlies on win2k.
No way to install anything ... so I went back to 12-28 (seems fine!)

ehume · Post by **ehume** » January 1st, 2003, 8:06 am

I can confirm this bug for 2002-12-29 and -31, WinXP Pro SP-1.

Same bug is in 2003-01-01

fileman · Post by **fileman** » January 2nd, 2003, 7:42 am

I also had this bug with 12-30... (stepped back to 12-28)

Post by **old Neil Parks** » January 2nd, 2003, 10:48 am

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20030102 Phoenix/0.5

still has same bug

Updated-Win32Nightly Build Dec 29 Won't Install XPI Package

Updated-Win32Nightly Build Dec 29 Won't Install XPI Package

Phoenix Win32Nightly Build Dec 29 Won't Install XPI Package

Win32Nightly Build Dec 29 Won't Install XPI Package