I'm not sure if this is a Gentoo problem or a Firefox problem - but it seems to work fine on Debian/FireFox0.8... On Gentoo [even if run as (sudo) root] FireFox will appear to download and install themes (and notify you that you need to restart) - but on restarting the themes will be nowhere to be seen. Similarly, I downloaded about 10 .xpi extensions from the FirFox site, of which two were present when I restarted the browser. Interestingly, when installing either a theme or a plugin, you get a the "you must restart" message once for each theme/plugin that you have installed this session - e.g. by the 10th you're having to click through 10 dialogs. A (possibly related) problem is that the download manager works correctly for the first item, but any further ones perpetually stay stuck on "Starting..." (even on my work network with a 2Mb/s outgoing pipe). Clicking "Cancel" then "Retry" causes these items to then complete immediately, but they seem to be left sitting in /tmp rather than being installed into FireFox. Note that even these stalled downloads still report "plugin/theme installed" even when they're apparently stuck. As I mentioned, I would write this off as a FireFox problem, if it weren't for the fact that the Debian packaged version appears to work correctly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: After first plugin, try to download further ones. Try to install any theme. Actual Results: Some plugins installed; no themes became available. Some .jar and .xpi files left in /tmp Expected Results: Theme/plugin should be installed into FireFox. Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.25 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acpi alsa gtk2 intel8x0 png radeon sse truetype unicode usb video_cards_radeon x86 xinerama"
Please disregard - I had Mozilla running at the same time on a different machine via ssh, which broke FireFox. The download dialog is still broken, but I guess that this is one for the FireFox developers.
