179179 - Preferences for extensions are broken

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 173980

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Jens Tinz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021108 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021108 Phoenix/0.4

Looks like the overlay information for the prefs panels 
of (officially supported) extensions need to be updated.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download Phoenix port of MozGest
2. open Tools->Preferences->Advanced
3.

Actual Results:  
No prefs panel for MozGest available

Expected Results:  
Display entry for MozGest prefs panel

Comment 1

[Ben Escoto]

Hi, I was about to report a similar bug when I saw this.  On my system (rh7.2),
I have phoenix installed under a non-root user.  When I click "Get new
extensions"->Gestures, I get some error about not having permissions to write to
the mozilla/chrome directory.  This message is vague since it isn't clear where
this directory is.  Also, my phoenix folder is owned by that user, so there
shouldn't be an error.

When I run phoenix as root, I can install the gestures, and they seem to work
when I restart as root.  However, if I install as root and restart as non-root
the gestures appear in the extensions list, but don't seem to work.

Comment 2

[alanjstr]

Ben-

I think your problem comes from extensions being installed in a 'global' place
rather than a 'local' place.  There is already a bug or two open for that.

Jens-

I've seen this sort of thing before, where I install an extension and it doesn't
show up.  For me it was the Policy Manager [
http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_policymanager.en.html ] on Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021102 Phoenix/0.4

Comment 3

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Dupe.
Jens, the author of the extension said he'll try to work on this. See
http://surfmind.com/musings/categories/mozilla/2002/11/01.cfm#a376

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173980 ***

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

Mass verifiying old duplicates.