Closed Bug 259072 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Add engines fails quietly unless user has rights to searchplugins dir

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232638

People

(Reporter: ajarmoniuk, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

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 Add engines... option does nothing if the user does not have write permission to the searchplugins directory. The engine is not added. No warning is shown. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 0. Prerequisite: the user has no write permission to searchplugins dir. 1. Click on Add engines...; should load MyCroft. 2. Pick any search engine, a javascript confirmation dialog should pop up. 3. Pick "OK" Actual Results: Nothing happens. Expected Results: A warning message should pop up. Or, better, search plugins should be installed in user profile dir.
setting -> depends on bug 232638 move searchplugins directory to profile
Depends on: 232638
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232638 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
No longer depends on: 232638
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Depends on: 248719
No longer depends on: 248719
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 297306 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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