Firefox add search engine fix

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codepupil · Post by **codepupil** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 5:56 am

Didn't see anything else posted on this.
once I emerged firefox I could not add search engines from the nav bar. I fixed this by doing the following.

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#!/bin/bash
chgrp wheel /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/;   #or whatever group your user is a member of 
chmod g+w  /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/;

I don't know if this could be a security issue. Can anyone tell me ??

SLBMEH · Post by **SLBMEH** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 6:19 am

It allows anyone in your wheel group to edit the files in your search plugins directory...but that's a bit obvious...as long as you trust everyone in your wheel group you'll be fine i suppose.

gen2fox · Post by **gen2fox** » Wed Jul 14, 2004 1:47 pm

I had this problem too, I solved it by manually copying the src and png files to the search plugins directory.

ivanova · Post by **ivanova** » Fri Jul 30, 2004 7:39 pm

Can't you store the search plugins in the user profile directory? Where would that be?

BlindSpy · Post by **BlindSpy** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:29 pm

Awesome post! thanks!

Seather · Post by **Seather** » Sat Sep 11, 2004 8:34 am

ivanova wrote:Can't you store the search plugins in the user profile directory? Where would that be?

I want to know this too. Why should it be the same for all users? :/

Post by **pjp** » Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:31 pm

Moved from Documentation, Tips & Tricks.

Gatta · Post by **Gatta** » Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:12 am

That's been bugging me for a while, thanks for the tip.

serialhex · Post by **serialhex** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:24 pm

for me it wasnt in /usr/lib...

it was in /opt/firefox ... but it's still the same thing. change the group of the searchplugins folder and give the group rite abilites.

thats all...

hex

da-flow · Post by **da-flow** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:24 pm

Great topic helped exactly with what i needed

THX

MagnusBerg · Post by **MagnusBerg** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:46 pm

I run Firefox as root then I install searchplugins.

CybeRDukE · Post by **CybeRDukE** » Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:50 am

thanks for the tip! this prevents me from starting firefox as root.
but there is one problem: the plugins are deleted after updating firefox (don't know if it's still the case with firefox 1.0 but i had this problem with earlier versions). so the imho best way would be to store the plugins in the home directory as mentioned by ivanova.
does someone know if that's possible?

heXen · Post by **heXen** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:22 am

so what does the directory $HOME/.phoenix/searchplugins exist for?
i put .src files in there and nothing happens

cbr · Post by **cbr** » Sun May 08, 2005 9:30 am

~/.mozilla/searchplugins works under Debian and plugins go there by default.

Archangel1 · Post by **Archangel1** » Sun May 08, 2005 11:01 am

cbr wrote:~/.mozilla/searchplugins works under Debian and plugins go there by default.

That's... odd....
For a start Firefox's profile lives in ~/.mozilla/firefox/blahblah.default, and I can't see why Debian's firefox should be different to ours - it's the same piece of software, and mine blatantly isn't using the user's profile for plugins.

legine · Post by **legine** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:05 am

I have found one suggested sollution.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-309736.html

djm wrote: If you emerged mozilla-firefox, then the search plugins live in /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins/, presumably if you emerged mozilla-firefox-bin they are in /opt as the previous poster said

It's very annoying that everytime firefox is re-emerged old search plugins get deleted, and the ones I've removed previously get put back (especially since I've only been able to install them by running firefox as root, though I guess I could just download the files manually)

Adding the searchplugins dir to CONFIG_PROTECT is probably the way to get round the search plugins from being "reset" though
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CONFIG_PROTECT can be added to make.conf with the argument where your searchplugins are. But I am unsure if this is enough, since my plugins are still there just not used. But IMHO it is the right way to go.

cheers
legine

ova · Post by **ova** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 11:11 am

For those who are interested in Why firefox does not install search engine in home directory:
Following answer given me on firefox forums:

It'll be fixed in Firefox 1.5.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123315

bedo · Post by **bedo** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:42 pm

that's awesome, I've been looking for this for ages. Thanks man.

Dlareh · Post by **Dlareh** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:47 pm

I've known about this "fix" for ages, but I don't use it because I run firefox on too many machines and it's a pain to have to redo it all the time

I'm also disappointed that there is no way to drop down the engine list using the keyboard. I hate clicking the damn thing.

revertex · Post by **revertex** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:03 am

It's not so easy, but seems a better solution

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-27 ... ml#2775228

Firefox add search engine fix

Firefox add search engine fix

Thanks!