Bug 51296 – Mozilla Firefox: Troubles with the search plugins

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Michael Kiermaier 2004-05-17 10:23:43 UTC]

I have two comments on the search engines (in the upper right corner) of firefox:

1) After a fresh emerge, it is not possible to add search engines:

This can be fixed by:
chmod 777 /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins
as root.

But I think that should be done by the ebuild.


2) I updated from mozilla-firefox-0.8 to mozilla-firefox-0.8-r3, and the search plugins, that I installed by hand to 0.8, got erased.

This should not happen.


The best solution would be to install the search-plugins somewhere in the users' home directories, I guess.



# emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-ppc-2004.1, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.2_rc1-benh1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.2_rc1-benh1 ppc 750FX
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.12
distcc 2.14 powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=750 -fsigned-char -mpowerpc-gfxopt"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-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 /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/lib/pbbuttons /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=750 -fsigned-char -mpowerpc-gfxopt"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib apache2 apm arts audiofile berkdb caps crypt cups doc dvd encode flac foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm gtk2 guile icq imlib innodb jack jack-tmpfs java jpeg kde ladcca lcms libwww mad maildir mitshm motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppc python qt radeon readline samba sasl sdl slang speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype usb video_cards_radeon wmf xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Joseph Booker 2004-06-05 17:30:56 UTC]

root@Athena / ln -s "~/bin" users_bin

root@Athena / less users_bin 
users_bin: No such file or directory


If only that worked......

The best way is to get the upstream people to allow a .phoenix/searchplugins/ dir or something

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-09-16 19:52:02 UTC]

upstream bug, see last comment in Bug 61015 for more info

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61015 ***