On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:21:16 -0500, Petter H�ggholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Collins Richey wrote: > > >On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:55:22 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I have firefox 1.0 installed. When I go to the search bar and tell it to > >>install other extensions it says it did it succesfully but they never show > >>up. Any ideas. > >> > >> > >> > > > >I've been using Firefox a long time, but I'm not sure what the "search bar" > >is? > > > >OTOH, I've never had much luck installing extensions from a normal > >user. If I'm going to install extensions, I startx as root, then do my > >extension work, then log out. Any other way, file permissions get in > >the way. > > > > > > > Installing regular extensions should work fine as a user (does for me) > since they're stored in users' home directories;
Sure, but I prefer to have extensions installed for all users. > search plugins in particular sadly won't work off the shelf, so to speak, > since only root > has access to /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins, which must be > modified. Personally, I just change the permissions of the directory so > I can install search plugins as a user; A good idea. > alternatively, you could fire up Firefox as root (no need to startx as > root!). > Yeah, come to think of it, that's what I've done. At least I learned what the search bar is <g>. -- Collins -- [email protected] mailing list
