259072 - Add engines fails quietly unless user has rights to searchplugins dir

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232638

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrzej Jarmoniuk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10

Add engines... option does nothing if the user does not have write permission to
the searchplugins directory. The engine is not added. No warning is shown.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
0. Prerequisite: the user has no write permission to searchplugins dir.

1. Click on Add engines...; should load MyCroft.
2. Pick any search engine, a javascript confirmation dialog should pop up.
3. Pick "OK"

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
A warning message should pop up. 

Or, better, search plugins should be installed in user profile dir.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

setting 
-> depends on bug 232638 move searchplugins directory to profile

Comment 2

[Robert Parenton]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232638 ***

Comment 3

[Robert Rothenberg]

*** Bug 297306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***