Béèm wrote:
Philip Chee wrote:
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 11:57:08 +0100, Béèm wrote:
I am a bit confused now.
Where should the searchplugins directory be in?
In the profile directory structure?
Or in the program directory structure?
We ship some default search engines and they are installed in the
seamonkey/searchplugins/ directory.
Not the case for SeaMonkey 2.15 and 2.15.1, but was the case for 2.11
Not the case for FireFox, but the search xml files are in the main
firefox directory, but not found by FireFox.
In addition users can install search plugins in their
profile/searchplugins/ directory by simply going to (say)
mycroft.mozdev.org. and installing a search plugin from there.
That makes sense.
Thirdly search plugins can be delivered as part of an extension in the
XPI's searchplugins/ directory.
I have not done this for plugins.
On some Operating Systems, there is a system global location for
installing search plugins. Please consult your OS manual on this.
Correct. See: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
However even when putting them there, they aren't seen.
In this directory there are the plugins as seen by about:plugins.
Phil
Conclusion for now:
It seems that (maybe in my case) the search xml files should be in
..../program/searchplugins directory, where program is SeaMonkey or
FireFox.
But they aren't put there when I do the extract from the seamonkey or
firefox tar files. But for seamonkey 2.11 it wasn't a problem.
My OS hasn't changed since the 2.11 time.
I will try to treat them as user additions so they are in the profile
directory structure. I have to do this test yet.
But if positive, I won't have the issue anymore when updating a
seamonkey or firefox in my environment.
Just did the test for firefox.
In the default profile structure I created a searchplugins directory.
I copy those basic xml search files in there and voila I can select now
the search engines.
I am pretty confident this will hold between later updates.
Maybe not the official way of doing, but I suppose it works for me.
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