How can I download a XPI without Firefox, try to install it?

Mail Redirect, an addon for TB, recently switched to Sourceforge as MozDev would close down or something. However, attempting to download the latest XPI from Sourceforge (http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mailredirect/mailredirect-0.7.7-sm%2Btb.xpi?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fmailredirect%2F%3Fsource%3Ddirectory & ts = 1370301869 & use_mirror = iweb) fails, because Firefox assumes the download is supposed to be year of install a Firefox addon, and Mail Redirect's metadata is set to be incompatible with Firefox.

There is no way to replace it and force a download; by clicking on 'Direct link' on the page is the same, and dragging one of the links to window (Ctrl-J) downloads downloads an HTML document with a. XPI extension, which is obviously useless. In addition, Thunderbird has no practical way to open arbitrary Web pages.

I finally relented and IE to download. It took about 30 seconds.

You will need to click on this link to save the file (you now have such a link above).

You can also set the pref browser.altClickSave Boolean to true for the topic: config page.

Then, you can hold down the Alt key and click a link.

Tags: Firefox

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