284492 - Extension won't install system-wide

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 284669

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Matthieu Pupat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3

It seems impossible to install system-wide (i.e. for all users) extensions

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install an extension as root

Actual Results:  
it goes under /root/.mozilla/firefox/default.xxx/extensions

Expected Results:  
it goes under /opt/firefox-1.0.1/extensions (or anywhere firefox is installed)

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Reporter - did you use the -install-global-extension command line switch as
described here http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/#troubleshooting
and elsewhere? Also, bug 250847 may be of interest since the ua you reported
with is Firefox 0.9.3

Comment 2

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Resolving as dup of bug 284669 since the reporter provided more detail in that bug .

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 284669 ***

Comment 3

[Matthieu Pupat]

Nope did not see this option the time I opened this bug.

OK for the duplicate.