314298 - Adding search engines does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 123315

(Firefox :: Search, defect)

Description

[Johnny Wezel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 Firefox/1.0.7

I tried to add more search engines to the toolbar search field, but it has no effect. Nothing is added, no indication on what's wrong.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose Add engines ...
2. Click on a engine, say "LEO"
3. Click OK in the dialog popping up.

Actual Results:  
Nothing at all, even after restart

Expected Results:  
Added new search engine

System: Linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r10
libc: GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.5, by Roland McGrath et al.
Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.11 system on 2005-10-01.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051029 Firefox/1.5 ID:2005102900

WFM.

Comment 2

[Hiro]

In version 1.0.x, search engin is installed in the following places. 

  Firefox install directory/searchplugins

Is the installation destination recordable in your account?

In 1.8 branch build, search engin is installed in my Profile.
Therefore, this problem will not occur as long as there is no special reason. 

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

This is because prior to 1.5 search plugins were added to the app. directory which wasn't writable for most users. Now we put them in the profile directory which is writable in almost all cases.

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