severity 344163 normal
retitle 344163 firefox: install package does not migrate searchplugins

* Moshe Yudkowsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Package: firefox
> Version: 1.5.dfsg-2
> Severity: important
> 
> The upgrade from 1.0x to 1.5 does not migrate searchplugins or plugins.
> 
> To get the upgrade to work correctly:
> 
> * Moving search plugins
> 
> Contents of ~/.mozilla/searchplugins must be moved to 
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<your default directory>/searchplugins

That's crappy. Needs to be reported upstream.
 
> * Moving regular plugins
> 
> Plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins should be moved (or duplicated -- 
> usually they are links) to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins.

Already numerous bugs to that effect. Will be fixed next upload.

> * Regular Extensions
> 
> Regular extensions migrated, for the most part.
> 
> I was unable to figure out how to get mozilla-tabextensions to migrate; even 
> install/uninstall fails. I've written a separate bug report for that problem, 
> which hasn't yet shown up in the bug-report system.

mozilla-tabextensions needs to put it's files in the right place
post-rename. 

> Thank you. Please let me know if you need additional information.

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