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ruimoura

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 23

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Using Deskbar Applet with firefox google search

Hi.

I didn't knew where to put this, so i write it here on the newbie section.

I installed Deskbar Applet (my fav Gnome app) and i have firefox (actually, swiftfox and firefox) and when i try to search on google with deskbar the google search didn't appear. So i guessed it was a permission problem because the place where the default google search is installed is:

/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/searchplugins/

I'm not a big expert on this, but i went to my home folder, then to:

.mozilla/firefox/myprofile/searchplugins/

Inside that dir, you just need to do a symbolic link (as root, or like i have, with sudo):

sudo ln -s /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.3/searchplugins/google.xml

There, you can now use google search with deskbar.

Ps: all the search plugins you add are installed on your .mozilla, only the default ones are on the firefox system folder.

Ps2: if there is any other way to do it, please tell me, but i guess this is the easiest way.

Ps3: sorry my bad english ...

Last edited by ruimoura (2007-05-09 08:59:52)

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