236221 - Add Engines does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232179

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040228 Firefox/0.8.0+

When I click on add engines nothing happens an exception in thrown in the
javascript console:

Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIStringBundle.GetStringFromName]"  nsresult:
"0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame :: XStringBundle ::
getString :: line 16"  data: no]

I also saw this under XP, though I also saw it working.
Adding engines from mycroft works, though at instances it doesn't work


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Do Add Engines under linux

Other problems with installing from mycroft are difficult to reproduce

Comment 1

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Installing of engines from mycroft works (Add engines still not) if the user
running firefox has permissions to write in the searchplugin directory under
linux. This is not a really nice solution. It would be better to move search
plugins to the profile.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232179 ***

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.