Arch Linux

ganlu

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From: ChongQing, China

Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 360

fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

go to here, and install:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html
search archlinux package, have installed.

luigi

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Registered: 2004-07-02

Posts: 29

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

Works great! Thanks!

mcubednyc

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From: New York, NY USA

Registered: 2004-03-17

Posts: 120

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

Do you have to open Firefox as root to install extensions?  I can't figure out how the permissions work for things like this.

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i3839

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Registered: 2004-02-04

Posts: 1,185

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

No, extensions are installed in the user's home directory.

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

I can't install search engines in firefox. I have to do it manually (go to the ftp server, download the extensions, and put them in the correct directory). Does someone know how to fix this.

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luigi

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Registered: 2004-07-02

Posts: 29

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

I can't install search engines in firefox. I have to do it manually (go to the ftp server, download the extensions, and put them in the correct directory). Does someone know how to fix this.

What exactly is the problem/error blocking you from doing so?

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

I just click te link, a window pops up, asking me if I wan't to install the search engine, I click OK, and nothing happens. It does not install.

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And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.

shen

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Registered: 2003-09-05

Posts: 272

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Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

I had to load firefox as root to get the search engines to load in..

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

I have just tried as root, and does not work.

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And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.

kakabaratruskia

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2003-08-24

Posts: 596

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

Fixed giving general write support to the folder /searchplugins.
http://archlinux.org/phpbt/?do=details&id=1073

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And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though?
They're all resting down in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual.

luigi

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Registered: 2004-07-02

Posts: 29

Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

Here's my fix:

$ su -

# cd /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1
# chown root:users searchplugins
# chmod 775 searchplugins

There really SHOULD be a ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.klm/searchplugins/ directory for each user (there's one for extensions).  Hopefully by 1.0 the Firefox people will change this.

aCoder

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From: Medina, OH

Registered: 2004-03-07

Posts: 359

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Re: fancy to see an Archlinux search plugin for firefox

If you create the directory, will Firefox look in it?  It's simple enough to grab the plugin and throw it in you home directory somewhere.

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