Summary: | Adding engines to Mozilla Firefox doesn't work | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | David Held <andukar> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | major | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
David Held
2004-05-02 14:44:12 UTC
open up the permissions on /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins so the user can you are logged in as can write to the directory 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. How about reporting it upstream as a bug then? It's part of the base firebird build, so it should theoretically work. 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. |