Re: Firefox extension and themes install
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En/La Freddy Freeloader ha escrit, a 14/05/05 16:30:
| 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.
|
Hi Freddy,
I'm running Sarge (2.6.8) and Firefox 1.0.4. I have the following
extensions: Launchy, DictionarySearch, Linky and Adblock.
AFAIK they all are installed in ~/.mozilla/firefox/default.mq3/extensions/
I always run Firefox as a normal user and never as root. I never touch
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox and so permission issues don't arise.
Cheers,
Jonathan
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