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FS#2529 - mozilla-firefox and search plugins

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Victor (Victor) - Saturday, 09 April 2005, 07:03 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 06:52 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
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

When we upgrade mozilla-firefox to a new version (1.0.1 to 1.0.2), we lose all the search plugins we have added while using the previous one.
This plugins are in /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.0.x/, where x is the number of the version.

Could you include something into the post_install script to search for this directory and, if it exists, copy the contents into the new one?
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 29 August 2005, 22:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  searchplugins are stored in profile instead of appdir now
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 12:05 GMT
shouldn't you be adding plugins to ~/.firefox/ instead?
Comment by Victor (Victor) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 13:46 GMT
By default, when you add a search plugin, it is saved into /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.0.x/searchplugins/ directory, not into ~/.firefox/. However, the extensions and themes are installed into your ~/.mozilla/firefox/ directory, that's why when you upgrade to a new version, you can go on using your themes and extensions, but not the search plugins.
Comment by Dale Blount (dale) - Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 13:50 GMT
Sounds to me like an upstream bug then...


Yup, it is:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232638
Comment by Victor (Victor) - Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 15:58 GMT
Yes, it is a an upstream bug, but we can override it if we save the contents of the old /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-1.0.x/searchplugins/ directory into the new one each time a new version is released.
Comment by dtw (dibblethewrecker) - Monday, 20 June 2005, 13:53 GMT
In the same way /opt/mozilla/lib/firefox/searchplugins should be chmod 777 or similar so any user can install plugins

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