GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 653404
Mozilla extensions (.xpi) only open after renaming to .zip
Last modified: 2011-10-19 07:19:50 UTC
When opening a file from Nautilus by double-clicking, if that file is a zip with a .xpi file extension, the archive fails to open and a message: Could not open "[filename].xpi" Archive type not supported. Renaming the file to [filename].zip and repeating the above result in the expected behaviour. OS: Ubuntu Oneiric x86_64 file-roller: 3.0.2
I cannot reproduce this bug, the archive type is already guessed by the content and not by the extension.
I confirm this with file-roller 3.1.3 on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric" with the xpi found here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lightning/
This happens only when zip/unzip is used instead of 7zip. It's now fixed in the current development version. Thanks for the bug report.
not working for me : file-roller 3.2.0 on Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric"
It works for me, maybe the issue is Ubuntu specific, file a bug in their bug tracking system.