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SpoonMeiser
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 Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject: Search bar in Firefox (or Firebird or Phoenix) |
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As root, I can add engines to the search bar in Firefox, and they appear for all users. However, shouldn't I be able to add engines as a non-root user so that they appear for just that user?
This will also help next time Mozilla re-name the browser so that I don't have to re-add them again. |
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uodeltasig
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Location: Eugene, OR
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| Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 2:27 am Post subject: solution: chmod searchplugins |
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* Update *
Since this is such a popular problem I added my bottom post about setting the search engines and plug-in permissions for firefox-bin as well to this post
I had this problem and i just figured it out. You just need to set permissions to the 'searchplugins' folder. Assuming your are using the firefox from the emerge build and that you don't care which users write to it. It also seems that the plugins directory is also like this, which seems silly... but just incase you can go ahead and
For mozilla-firefox source
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chmod o+rw /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins
chmod o+rw /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins
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For mozilla-firefox-bin
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su
chmod o+rw /opt/firefox/searchplugins
chmod o+rw /opt/firefox/plugins
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Make sure you get the gentoo forum search plugin... its awesome!
Last edited by uodeltasig on Thu Mar 17, 2005 4:46 am; edited 1 time in total |
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eumel
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| Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:53 am Post subject: |
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thank you, I had the same problem  |
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nilbus
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| Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 10:00 pm Post subject: |
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| me too, thanks ^_^ |
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woZa
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Good work - I too had this problem...
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elzbal
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Bumping, because this is extremely helpful and resolved my problem as well. |
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uodeltasig
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Does anyone know why this hasn't been resolved in the latest releases from Mozilla? *note it's the same for the firefox-bin. Is this a security issue to change user permissions to allow it to add search engines? The windows release allows for this, so this seems like it would be the one time you would want to follow the windows implementation.
Should I open up a bug report? |
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uodeltasig
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| Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:10 am Post subject: also avaliable are the bin permissions |
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If you emerged the mozilla-firefox-bin then there are different locations for the permissions
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su
chmod o+rw /opt/firefox/searchplugins
chmod o+rw /opt/firefox/plugins
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