308550 - 'Add Engines...' fails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123315

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Daniel Ehrlich]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Red Hat/1.0.6-1.4.2 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Red Hat/1.0.6-1.4.2 Firefox/1.0.6

If I attempt to add a search engine it appears to work, but the new search
engine does not appear in the list.  Restarting firefox does not correct this. 
And, it works as expected under Windows XP SP2.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select 'Add Engines...' from the search engine drop down menu
2.pick an engine to add from the page that opens
3.notice that it does not appear in the list

Actual Results:  
Frustration mounts

Expected Results:  
Added the requested search engine

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

bug 259072 and thus down the chain to being fixed in 1.5b1 by bug 123315,
because the user you're running Firefox as doesn't have write permission for the
searchplugins directory in the application directory?

Comment 2

[Philipp Krüger]

"Add Engines..." fails with "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4" as well - the icon is transferred to the
searchplugins folder in the profile but the *.src is not.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> "Add Engines..." fails with "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
> rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4"

Why would you think that has anything to do with a Linux-specific bug in an
earlier release with completely different behavior?

Comment 4

[Daniel Ehrlich]

Why is the search plugin directory global and not part of the user's accessable
files (as it is in Windows)?  Is this corrected in Firefox 1.5b1?

Comment 5

[Daniel Ehrlich]

Previously I was using Firefox 1.0.6 under RH 8 with the program installed in my
home directory.  Even then I could not add serach engines.

Comment 6

[Elmar Ludwig]

> Why is the search plugin directory global and not part of the user's
> accessable files (as it is in Windows)?

The search plugin directory is global on Windows as well (in Firefox 1.0.x), but
the typical Windows user has write access to the Firefox installation directory.

> Is this corrected in Firefox 1.5b1?

Yes, see bug 123315 mentioned above. Pleasy try to reproduce your problem with a
current build (like the Firefox 1.5 beta or a nightly build).

Comment 7

[Adam Guthrie]

Like Phil said, bug 123315 fixed this issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 123315 ***