[pchelpers] Re: Firefox Won't Allow Software Installation


Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi GTCox,
> 
> Saturday, March 18, 2006, 10:34:05 AM, you wrote:
> 
> G> It is amazing that the link you sent takes you to a page with info
> G> on it and yet it takes me and Ekhart to a page with nothing on it.
> 
> When you click on the link, the trailing parenthesis is ignored, since
> it's assumed to be part of text.  The only way to keep the trailing
> parenthesis from being dropped is to have something after it, like
> this:
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_(Firefox)%20

Still doesn't work; looks like a case of email programs "thinking" too 
much on the part of users. It also doesn't work when sent by Tbird. I 
already made the suggestion in the KB to not use URLs with parentheses 
at the end.

> ...or to encode the trailing parenthesis, as in your link:
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_(Firefox%29
> or
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_%28Firefox%29

Yes, i noticed that.

> No reply from Ekhart yet; I guess he's still tinkering. :)

? I answered 22 minutes before this message of yours and it posted 
immediately. Is Freelists taking longer to send to Texas than to Finland?



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