FS#1073 - Can't Add Search Engines to Mozilla-Firefox

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Frank Bidwell (fbidwell) - Monday, 05 July 2004, 14:11 GMT
Last edited by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 07 July 2004, 19:15 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Dale Blount (dale)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Adding Search engines to the Mozilla-Firefox toolbar doesn't work if you are logged in as a normal user.

The directory /opt/mozilla-firefox/lib/firefox-0.9.1/searchplugins/

is not set writable in the installation, so the java script cannot write to the directory.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Dale Blount (dale)
Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 20:04 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 07 July 2004, 19:15 GMT
In discussing this with other devs, this seems illogical because of the security concerns of a world-writable "plugin" directory. We are researching other ways to implement a workaround.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Wednesday, 07 July 2004, 19:18 GMT
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248719
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 20 July 2004, 20:04 GMT
This is an upstream feature that needs to be implemented. Globaly writable-shared directories are a security risk. Please comment on Mozilla's Bugzilla via the link I provided.

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