Re: mozilla and installing java plugin with xpi extension

"Tony Young (ty)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpinstall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sean Su wrote:
> I'm not sure why it didn't automatically run the .xpi file for you, but 
> since you have saved the .xpi file to disk, all you have to do to 
> install the file is simply open the .xpi file via the Mozilla browser.  
> You can just type the full path of the .xpi file in the url field, ie: 
> c:\my documents\myfile.xpi
> 
> This will run the .xpi file in the xpinstall context.
> 

Looks like that would've worked. It is strange that it didn't do it
automatically and was actually why I didn't bother trying the 'Open
File' method.
I feel a little silly now for not doing it anyway.
Thanks Sean.
ty
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