Closed Bug 248404 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Search extensions can't be installed by ordinary users

Categories

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Search
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

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Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123315

People

(Reporter: h, Assigned: p_ch)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040602 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040602 Firefox/0.8 To install search engines into the search toolbar field with javascript:addEngine I need to run firefox as root, otherwise nothing happens. Presumably it's trying to install them into Firefox's system directory, which I don't have write access to. Other types of extension allow ordinary users to install into their home directories instead. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123315 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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