259060 - Install/uninstall of search plugins requires root

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232638

(Firefox :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[J.B. Nicholson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10

It appears that on all platforms, one must be root (or "administrator" on MS
Windows) to install/uninstall a search plugin (like adding/removing the IMDB
search plugin).  This is bad.  One should be able to do this so long as one can
write to their profile.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Mozilla Firefox 1.0RC.
2.Try to install a search plugin (like the IMDB one).
3.If you can't write to the application dir, watch it fail.  Otherwise it works.
Actual Results:  
When I'm able to write to the app dir, it works.  Otherwise it fails.

Expected Results:  
Adding the search plugin should always work because it should only modify what's
in the user's profile.

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

This could be made moot when searchplugins gets moved to the profile directory
in bug 232638.

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Oops.
Sorry for the bugspam.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232638 ***

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Verifying old and obvious dupes. Sorry for bugspam.