[Enigmail] Current version: Incompatibility with Firefox? - and TB?Workround requested

[John Clizbe]

Peter Dzwig wrote:
> Innocently agreed to update to Tbird the other night to TB2.0.0.6 and 
> was told that it was disabling Enigmail.
> 
> I have subsequently tried to download current Enigmail via Firefox and 
> from TB. TB denies all knowledge. Firefox gives me: " Enigmail 0.95.3 
> could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox"
> 
> Am running XP as OS, no other mail clients running and have been running 
> FFX/TB/Enigmail combination VERY happily for months.
> 
> Does anyone have a workround or better still know what  the solution is?

All the other Save-as instructions are correct, but since you're a) on windows
and B) asked for a shourtcut...

the simplest is to have the Tools --> Add-on --> Extensions --> Install
File-chooser open in Thunderbird. Then navigate to to the Download page in
Firefox. Click and hold-down on the download link and drag it to Thunderbird's
chooser window. Release the mouse button and click OK.

(Right-click on URL, Copy Link Target and pasting in the chooser dialog box also
works)

Windows will then automagically download the XPI to its Temporary Internet Files
location and make it available to Thunderbird to install.


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