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Bug 49758 - Adding engines to Mozilla Firefox doesn't work
Summary: Adding engines to Mozilla Firefox doesn't work
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2004-05-02 14:44 UTC by David Held
Modified: 2004-06-17 06:22 UTC (History)
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Description David Held 2004-05-02 14:44:12 UTC
Using mozilla-firefox-0.8-r2, when attempting to add more search engines to the search bar nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/dictionary.com.html
2. Click on the first link (Dictionary). This should popup a dialogue to accept adding this to the search engine bar.
3. Click ok.

Actual Results:  
The dictionary search engine was not added to the search engine bar.

Expected Results:  
The dictionary search engine should have been added to the search engine bar.

Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.21-ck1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-ck1 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU                1200MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
distcc 2.12.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.ccccom.com
http://mirror.tucdemonic.org/gentoo/ "
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dvd encode foomaticdb gdbm ggi gif
gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif
mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png python qt
quicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype x86 xml2
xmms xv zlib"
Comment 1 Aristotle Allen 2004-05-18 11:06:42 UTC
open up the permissions on /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins

so the user can you are logged in as can write to the directory
Comment 2 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-16 19:53:32 UTC
David, it's your choice if you want to do what Aristotle Allen suggested in comment #1.  Otherwise this isn't going to be fixed in Gentoo because it's a security issue.  It's a weakness in firefox to require search plugins be written to that directory, or perhaps a weakness of the plugin that it doesn't know how to do a profile-based installation.
Comment 3 David Held 2004-06-16 20:11:04 UTC
How about reporting it upstream as a bug then? It's part of the base firebird build, so it should theoretically work.
Comment 4 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-06-17 06:22:19 UTC
Please feel free to report it upstream at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Personally I believe that the firefox developers are already aware of the ways in which firefox attempts to write to the system-wide directories, but it doesn't hurt to bug them about it.