I was at a client site the other week and I was stumped. They have a locked down corporate environment and I couldn't get a newly installed firefox to download the Selenium IDE from the download site.
It was possible to get the files on another machine (that had network access), but not from firefox itself.
The weekend passed and on Monday I realized how simple the solution was. Just copy the xpi files on the other machine. Copy them to a USB drive or over the network to the locked down machine, and then load them via the file:// URL.
Tested on Linux and got that working. Didn't get to test on the actual Windows target since, in the meantime, the sysadmins gave us enough information to allow firefox to browse outward. But file:// is an easy way to install xpi files, if the browser can't get out to the world to download them directly.
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