Date: 03/10/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: php, html

A friend of mine tried installing extensions on Thunderbird and told me he couldn't. Naturally, I thought he wasn't following the directions, so I was going to walk him through.

The directions - on the official extensions site for Thunderbird - say this:


Extension Install Instructions for Thunderbird Users:
(1) Right-Click the link above and choose "Save Link As..." to Download and save the file to your hard disk.
(2) In Mozilla Thunderbird, open the extension manager (Tools Menu/Extensions)
(3) Click the Install button, and locate/select the file you downloaded and click "OK"


However, when right clicking as directed, and choosing "Save Link As...", also as directed, it tries to download and save 'install.php.html', and not the extension! What's the proper method, and why the hell do they have instructions that don't work on the official site?

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/259871.html