On 08/15/2016 01:56 PM, jd1008 wrote: > Oh F*** !! > On my display, There is no Gear > WHat there is: A small square box, in it are what look like icons of 3 > paint bruches, middle one inverted, > and a drop-down arrow to the right of the small square box. > > And I kept looking for a GEAR and a Search Box. > There is NO search box on my display :( > > But the drop down arrowhead DOES show the install from file. > ===> yes, iirc, in some of my previous versions of TB = Thunderbird, there were paint brushes. never could understand what was significant. main thing is that you did find the drop down arrow head. something to be aware of, mozilla devs are on a witch hunt and intend to code later versions to no accept any add-ons that do not come from their site and stamp of approval. i do imagine that there will be a 'wild cater' who will come up with an add-on that circumvent that, so i do not see the lockout to be any big problem. > Thanx a lot. most welcome. glad to see you have you add-on installed. > On 08/15/2016 12:36 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: >> >> On 08/15/2016 01:36 PM, jd1008 wrote: >>> I tried this on 45.2.0 and I saw the same problem. >>> I was not able to add an extension from a downloaded XPI file. >>> >> ===> >> >> reading what you replied to Joachim, you are not following instructions >> posted by him or me. >> >> when you click 'down arrow' next to 'gear', do you not see selection; >> >> Install Add-on From File >> >> if not, you might, tho i would think not, have 2 buggy versions. >> >> in drop down menu on my version, the selection is 3 rd in a choice of 5. >> >> >>> On 08/15/2016 12:09 PM, geo.inbox.ignored wrote: >>>> On 08/15/2016 12:28 PM, jd1008 wrote: >>>>> in TB (Thunderbird for the un-initiate :) >>>>> Tools -> Add-Ons no longer provides "install add-on from file. >>>>> >>>>> Could someone show how to install an-add-on from file? >>>>> >>>> ===> >>>> >>>> your header for your post shows; >>>> >>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) \ >>>> Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 >>>> >>>> which means your are not using a current version, therefore you should >>>> upgrade to a more recent version. >>>> >>>> on add-ons page, in upper right portion of page, you should see 2 >>>> selection bars. right most is labeled [Search all add-ons]. >>>> >>>> to left of that, a bar with a 'gear' and down pointing arrow head. >>>> clicking arrow head produces a drop down selection menu with >>>> "Install Add-on From File". >>>> >>>> if you do not see such, then you _really_should_ upgrade to later >>>> version of TB = Thunderbird. -- peace out. CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 tc,hago. g . =+= Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+= in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+= -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
