261611 - Cannot install new search engines, regardless of permissions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 232638

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Erik Harrison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

I've not been able to install search engines since just before 1.0PR (not sure
which nightly). I am currently running 1.0PR. I had assumed that this was caused
by bug 235600, but I ran FireFox with root permissions to install the Wikipedia
and IMDB search engines. They would not install, install silently fails. I can't
figure out how to run strace on firefox-bin instead of on the firefox shell
script, or I'd have that info.

I'm running slackware-current.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open FireFox as root
2. Attempt to install Wikipedia (or other) search plugin


Actual Results:  
Plugin fails to install, with no error

Expected Results:  
Installed the plugin

Comment 1

[Joshua Rosen]

Can't install engines on Fedora Core 3, AMD64 version. 

Comment 2

[charles]

running Linux 2.6.10-1.770_FC3, with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linuxi686; en-US;
rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

bug reproducible every time, regardles of permissions, number of system of
Firefox restarts, or which engine I attempt to add.  

Comment 3

[Sebastian Brocks]

duplicate of 232638.

Comment 4

[Fuzzbucket]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Slackware 10.1, Linux kernel 2.6.11.7
Installed from mozilla.org's own GUI installer as root - this is the first time
Firefox has been installed on this system.

Attempting to add search engines from
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central#central-engines by clicking the
link results in a confirm dialogue box, but the selected engine is not added to
the drop-down list in the search box.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
- Click link to install search engine
- Confirm selection by clicking OK

Comment 5

[David Wassman]

FreeBSD 5.4
Firefox 1.0.3

Could not use javascript to install search plugin either. Temp fix may be this:
1. Click the javascript link for desired plugin
2. Note the source link (ie http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/wikipedia.src)
3. Type this link into browser
4. Accept downlond
5. Retype the source link into browser but with png or tif extension
6. Save image
7. Move both *.src and *.(image) to firefox/searchplugins dir

I know most of you probably know this but it took me a while to figure it out
and my help someone else in the same bout. Sure it would work the same in linux
though I don't have a Linux box currently to try it out. Alot of steps, hope it
gets fixed in next update.

Comment 6

[Marc Bauer]

i can confim this on 1.5 Beta 1 and 1.5 Beta 2

Comment 7

[Lucius Chiaraviglio]

In Firefox 1.5 Beta 2, I had a related problem:  I tried to add Wikipedia using
the normal Mozilla page for adding search engines; the "Wikipedia&Google" entry
appeared UNDER the "Add Engines..." command, and then disappeared shortly
thereafter.  Attempting to add it again failed, but then when I quit Firefox and
restarted it, the "Wikipedia&Google" entry appeared at the end of the normal
list of search engines, and so far seems to be staying there.

Comment 8

[Lucius Chiaraviglio]

One other thing that might help with diagnosis:  when the "Wikipedia&Google"
entry temporarily disappeared, an extra border appeared in the search engine
menu, under "Add engines..."

Comment 9

[Erik Harrison]

AS the original reporter, I can say that not only has 1.5 beta 1 resolved this
problem for me.

Specifically, it allows installing search plugins per user, which may simply
bypass the inability for even Firefox running as root to write to the global
location, thus obscuring the problem.

Regardless, it now WFM.

Comment 10

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Resolving as a duplicate of the bug which fixed the original reporter's problem,
then.

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