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Bug 61015 - firefox: wrong access rights for /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins
Summary: firefox: wrong access rights for /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
URL: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug....
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 51296 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2004-08-20 04:47 UTC by Lorenz Kiefner
Modified: 2004-09-16 19:52 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Lorenz Kiefner 2004-08-20 04:47:01 UTC
firefox can only add search plugins when started as root because of wrong dir permissions on /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins.
i think the dir permissions should be set to something more sensible, eg. group-owner users and mod 775.

re-installing or updating firefox breaks custom changes to this directory. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install mozilla-firefox
2. try to add a search-plugin through http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
3. see no changes when adding search-plugins, but there should be some...

Actual Results:  
nothing. but that's not desired.

Expected Results:  
the searchplugins should be installed into
/usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins, but firefox raises no error and no
plugins get installed. see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1453602 (in
german) for the irritation which is inducted.

see even http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59671

firefox should display an error-message when it can't create files.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-09-16 19:51:58 UTC
this is an upstream bug; giving write permissions to the dir in /usr/ is completely the _wrong_ way to go
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2004-09-16 19:52:03 UTC
*** Bug 51296 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***