Firefox extension and themes install
Is anyone else running across the following problem?
Ever since Firefox changed the install routine for themes and extensions
due to a vulnerability I've been unable to install any themes or
extensions as a regular user. I can install them if I su to root and
start Firefox from the bash shell or if I run Firefox as root, but then
any extensions or themes installed don't apply to my regular user
profile. I've tried playine around with copying the entire
.mozilla/firefox directory from /root and changing owner and group
permissions on it so my user account has access but that only creates a
non-usable browser so I have to uninstall and reinstall again.
What happens is that the install routines for extensions/themes begin as
normal but fail silently. I can find no errors in any logs, and the
extensions directory remains empty. I'm assuming this is because
something has changed in the Firefox is using file permissions since the
extensions are installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and a regular user
doesn't have write permissions there.
I went to the Firefox support forums and one of the moderators told me
that this problem would be fixed in the 1.0.4 release so when the 1.0.4
package was placed in unstable I installed it from there by downloading
the package and using dpkg to install it. (I am running Sarge.)
I'm getting no response worth mentioning from the Firefox people so I
thought I'd ask here if anyone else is seeing this too and what your
workaround was.
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