Closed Bug 280402 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Theme Install Instruction for thunderebird users does not work

Categories

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

x86
Windows 2000
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275900

People

(Reporter: scloth, Assigned: Bugzilla-alanjstrBugs)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 On the "Install theme" area of the Nautical Theme for Thunderbird the following instruction leads to the downloading of the cgi-bin/install.php file and not the intended theme jarfile: (1) Right-Click the link above and choose "Save Link As..." to Download and save the file to your hard disk. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In Thunderbird, select Tools->Themes->"Get more themes" 2. When taken to the Thems apge in a Firefox window, select " ThiunderBird Themes" and then "Nautical for Thunderbird" 3. On the resulting page you will find, below the "install now" link, a heading "Theme Install Instructions for Thunderbird Users". 4. Beneath this heading, execute the first instruction... (1) Right-Click the link above and choose "Save Link As..." to Download and save the file to your hard disk. Actual Results: The link being right clicked is as follows: https://addons.update.mozilla.org/core/install.php?passthrough=yes&uri=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/themes/nautical_for_thunderbird/nautical-0.6.0-tb.jar Saving the link saves the install.php file. Expected Results: The follwoing link should have been saved... http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/themes/nautical_for_thunderbird/nautical-0.6.0-tb.jar Workaround: When right clicking as in instruction 1) (above), click "copy link location". Paste the link into the browser and edit out the link (removing the preamble to install.php, so it reads .... http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/themes/nautical_for_thunderbird/nautical-0.6.0-tb.jar Fetch the contents and "Save As" from the firefox File menu.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 275900 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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