314499 - search plugins don't install on windows from limited accounts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123315

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[sunpascal]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

search plugins don't install on windows from limited accounts, since they are safed in the installation directory of firefox (to which a normal/limited user usually doesn't have write permissions). Better put the search plugins in %appdata% along with each user's extensions and personal preferences. Also, this way every user can have their own search engines on a multi user machine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install any search plugin from a user (limited) account on winxp.

Actual Results:  
same

Expected Results:  
install search plugins (into user profile)

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Fixed for Firefox 1.5.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123315 ***

Comment 2

[sunpascal]

however all users have the same search plugins. It would be better if it was like the extensions.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

I'm not sure what you mean. Search plugins are now stored in the profile, so different users can have different search plugins. Better search management is scheduled for Firefox 2.0.