Incorrect mimetype on XPI download link.
Lately, when I've been downloading the latest beta Firefox extension, I've noticed that Firefox doesn't automatically prompt to install it. At first I thought it was an issue with Firefox, so I posted a question in the Firefox support forum. Their response was that the mimetype of the download is "binary/octet-stream" instead of "application/x-xpinstall".
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Hello @fishnet37222! 👋
Thank you for reaching out! I've brought this to the team internally and I'll report back as soon as I have more information.
Are you able to link to your question on the Firefox support forum? I can send that to the team as well. 🙂
-Dave
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Dave,
Thanks for following up.
Here's the link you requested: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1460204
Their response doesn't mention the correct type. I got that from this page in the Firefox Extension Workshop.
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Thank you for those links! I've opened an internal issue with our release team internally and they plan to look into this for the future. While I can't make any promises, I think that this would be a helpful change.
I appreciate you flagging this to us. 🙂
-Dave
ref: build-release/team-issues/-/issues/615
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Thanks for your patience. The team has investigated and found that the MIME type is already set correctly. While I did see the same behaviour that you reported yesterday, I'm no longer able to reproduce it today. When I download the beta version of the extension from this page I see the following:
and then:
Can you test again to see if you see different behaviour? If you do still see the same behaviour can you check if you've blocked our website from installing add-ons in the past:
I look forward to hearing from you.
-Dave
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Dave,
Thanks for following up. I am now seeing the expected behavior again.
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I'm happy that everything is working correctly now. 🙂
-Dave
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