219799 - Cannot Add Search Plugins in Windows (window.sidebar no longer recognized)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 219534

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[alanjstr]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030915 Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030915 Firebird/0.6.1+

This broke some time after 0.6.1
I originally posted this to http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4680 since I
thought it was bad browser detection.  But it still works in Linux, apparently.

From http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/installing.html#server

if ((typeof window.sidebar == "object") && (typeof
  window.sidebar.addSearchEngine == "function"))



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Go to Mycroft
2.  Find a Plugin you want
3.  Click it

Actual Results:  
alert("Netscape 6 or Mozilla is needed to install a sherlock plugin");

Expected Results:  
search plugin installs

Comment 1

[David P James]

WFM in Linux

Comment 2

[Erich 'Ricky' Iseli]

According to the reports on http://mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4680 , broken
on linux too. => All/All

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219534 ***

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

verified.