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#1 2004-07-04 17:07:28

fbidwell
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From: Atlanta, GA (USA)
Registered: 2004-05-09
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Question about Arch Mozilla-Firebox package

I have the default mozilla-firefox package installed.

Since the service fees for arch-linux google searchs is always increasing, I thought I would add some more search engines to the toolbar.   wink

When I tried doing this through the add engines menu item on the toolbar it didn't work.  I did figure out what the problem was.  The install doesn't give users the ability to write to the search-plugins directory, so a normal user can't add a engine to the toolbar.

What is the solution.

1) Install search plugins as root? I don't like this solution, since I don't want mozilla to create all sorts of garbage in the root account.

2) Open up the directory for a+rw.  This is what I did.

3) Create a mozilla group and change group to mozilla and chmod g+rw. Then add each user that uses mozilla to the mozilla group.  I would norminally do this, but I was in a lazy mood.

Is this a bug? Should the default package set this up so it works "out of the box"?

What do you guys think?

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#2 2004-07-04 17:37:53

sarah31
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Re: Question about Arch Mozilla-Firebox package

works here.


AKA uknowme

I am not your friend

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#3 2004-07-04 21:19:10

shen
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Registered: 2003-09-05
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Re: Question about Arch Mozilla-Firebox package

With the arch firefox package I have to load firefox as root to add new search engines...That's the only way I could dunno why but I am to lazy to figure out why so who knows..:)

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#4 2004-07-05 00:31:37

fbidwell
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From: Atlanta, GA (USA)
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Re: Question about Arch Mozilla-Firebox package

Like I said. I know why you have to be root. I had the same problem.. The directory is not writable by the normal user.  So when you click on the link, the java script can't write the .src file.

What I was asking is, if this is a bug or not and what the preferred "workaround" should be.

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#5 2004-07-05 08:48:26

zeppelin
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From: Athens, Greece
Registered: 2004-03-05
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Re: Question about Arch Mozilla-Firebox package

this is a bug. Please file a bug report so AL packagers can fix it
thank you

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#6 2004-07-05 14:03:03

fbidwell
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From: Atlanta, GA (USA)
Registered: 2004-05-09
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Re: Question about Arch Mozilla-Firebox package

Ok. I'll file a bug report. 

I wanted to make sure before I did.

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