Re: Need to be root to install plugins. was Re: [SLUG] Firebird Googlesearch to do Australia?

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/15/04 11:05, Michael Lake wrote:
> Peter Hardy wrote:
>
> > You can install a firefox search plugin:
> > http://mycroft.mozdev.org/quick/google.html ,  grep for Australia, 
> > click the linky thing. You need to be root to install plugins. And 
> > yes, the 
>
>
> I just installed Firefox yesterday on my PowerBook and when I go to 
> install plugins it just crashes and exits. So perhaps thats the problem; 
>  it is trying to install into /usr/share/firefox/plugins.

On my x86 deebian box firefox doesn't crash. It behaves exactly as if 
the plugin installed correctly (ie: does nothing). An error message 
would have been nice, and saved me 10 minutes of headscratching.

> I could not 
> find any option in the preferences to tell it to install plugins into 
> its own directory .firefix/plugins. I do not intend to login as root and 
> install plugins.

A lot of extensions have the option of installing globally or in a 
user's home directory. It's a shame the search plugins don't. In fact, I 
think I'm going to go file a bug.

In the meantime, though, I guess you could try grabbing 
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/plugins/googleAU.src and putting that in a 
searchplugins directory under your homedir. You'd also need to copy 
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/searchplugins/google.gif to googleAU.gif in 
your user one. Note that I'm not sure if this will actually work. :-)

--
Pete