Collins Richey wrote:
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 22:55:22 -0500 (EST), Brett I. Holcomb
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have firefox 1.0 installed. When I go to the search bar and tell it to
install other extensions it says it did it succesfully but they never show
up. Any ideas.
I've been using Firefox a long time, but I'm not sure what the "search bar" is?
It's next to the address bar, it uses the Google engine by default, but others can be added (including the Gentoo forums and b.g.o), so you can type your query and search the requested engine (I have Google Linux, all the Gentoo engines, several dictionaries and thesauri in two languages, the IMDB, and more selectable from mine. Saves a step of having to go to the page before searching).
Installing regular extensions should work fine as a user (does for me) since they're stored in users' home directories; search plugins in particular sadly won't work off the shelf, so to speak, since only root has access to /usr/lib/MozillaFirefox/searchplugins, which must be modified. Personally, I just change the permissions of the directory so I can install search plugins as a user; alternatively, you could fire up Firefox as root (no need to startx as root!).
OTOH, I've never had much luck installing extensions from a normal user. If I'm going to install extensions, I startx as root, then do my extension work, then log out. Any other way, file permissions get in the way.
That's how I do it too (change the permissions of the directory). This also has the benefit of allowing you to delete the engines you don't want as a user, such as the Amazon and eBay search engines, and Creative Commons, which I don't even know what it is, much less search it. Unfortunately, there is no other way to remove any of the default search engines other than manually removing them from the /searchplugins folder, so it's worth changing the permissions anyway if there's a bunch of stuff in there you know you don't want.
Holly
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