Closed Bug 1729693 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Cannot directly install attached XPI from email; asks which application to open file with

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Add-Ons: General
Version:
Thunderbird 91
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1690395

People

(Reporter: adrien.rybarczyk, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Have an email containing an XPI attached
Click on the xpi

Actual results:

Since TB91.0.1, Thunderbird will ask which application to open the file with.
The behavior is the same in TB92.0b5.

Expected results:

Be able to install an xpi again from an email.

I don't know if this behavior is intended (for security reasons?). I have not seen any information regarding this modification.
This problem is not really annoying because you can always register the XPI and install it from Add-ons and Themes.

Summary: Can't install xpi from email → Cannot directly install attached XPI from email; asks which application to open file with
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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