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Sunnz
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:36 am Post subject: Add engines in firefox? |
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I am wondering if it is possible to add search engines to firefox as a normal user? Or must I open up firefox in su to do it everytime? It doesn't work quite well sometimes...
I was able to install extensions as a normal user. |
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xaos5
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Sunnz
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| Yes it normally works if I am su... not as a normal user though... |
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dobysirius
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| Doesn't Firefox keep the installed engines with all the other data in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ? So if you add an engine as root, you wouldn't have it on another user. What keeps you from adding other engines on a normal user? Is there an error? Maybe you (somehow) didn't install it correctly. |
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Sunnz
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:33 am Post subject: |
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| The engine simply wouldn't show up... |
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hicksboson
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| dobysirius wrote: | | Doesn't Firefox keep the installed engines with all the other data in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ ? |
No, search engine plugins are not stored in home. You can only install them globally. They reside in the directory /opt/firefox/searchplugins. To install a new search engine from a normal user account you must make this directory writable for this user. If you are on a single user machine (home desktop) you can simply do (as root)
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chmod o+w /opt/firefox/searchplugins
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This will allow everybody on the machine to install searchplugins. If you don't want that, you can use the rights system to create more sophisticated rules. (e.g. you could change the owner group of .../searchplugins and give writing rights only for this group)
But the main point is, that this directory is only writable for root by default setting. So firefox can't copy the search engine there (meaning: install it) when not running with root permission. For some reason firefox gives no error message that the installation failed. So you got the impression that the engine just don't show up. |
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lusken
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Sunnz wrote: | | The engine simply wouldn't show up... |
I've always had the same issue as you. But for me it was fixed by upgrading to Firefox-1.5 (I emerged the bin version due to that the source version depends on ~x86 packages.)
If you cant get it to work, there's always the "Movies and Music Search" extension at the Firefox extensions website. |
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Sunnz
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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"Movies and Music Search" extension? Cool!
I'll wait till 1.5 becomes stable... for the time being I think I'll just change chmod to 777... |
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xaos5
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| 1.5 is stable for me, in fact i'm using deer park alpha and its still stable. |
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Sunnz
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| I mean stable as stable in the portage tree. |
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mxller
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