150155 - menu bar is empty after installing googlebar (& perhaps others)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[vik]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020531
Debian/1.0rc3-2
BuildID:    20020531

When installing googlebar as root on a debian/testing (woody) system with
mozilla 1.0RC3 (from debian/unstable), googlebar installs files under
/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/googlebar. These files it installs are only readable by
root. Subsequently, when another user attempts to run mozilla, not only is the
googlebar missing, but the menu bar in the navigator window (not any other
componenets) is completely empty (not hidden, but actually empty of any menu
entries). Both problems are resolved if the files in
/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/googlebar/ are made world-readable. Part of the problem
may lie with googlebar, but mozilla should be able to handle unreadable files
more gracefully.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.uninstall mozilla (apt-get --purge remove mozilla-browser)
2.install mozilla (apt-get install mozilla)
3.execute mozilla as root (/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin)
4.install googlebar using xpi auto-install (from mozdev.org)
5.log out root, log in as another user

Actual Results:  menu bar was empty (but present). It was not merely hidden.
Googlebar was not present

Expected Results:  menu bar to have entries, and googlebar to be present

after such an installation, mozilla runs fine when running a root. After
changing the permissions of hte files as mentioned above, everything works fine.

Comment 1

[Frederic Bezies]

WFM, using build 2002060706 - WinXP and latest google bar version.

Pretty good addon ;-)

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This is not a bug in Mozilla. Installing 3rd party XPI applications is "at your
own risk". Please file a bug on the GoogleBar project. THanks.