Bug 146605 - Non-root user's cannot install search plugins by default.
Summary: Non-root user's cannot install search plugins by default.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 145862
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 3
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-01-30 14:40 UTC by Axon
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-01-30 14:57:49 UTC
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Description Axon 2005-01-30 14:40:49 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
The permissions on the searchplugins directory for firefox should be
accessible to non-root users and should be set to 777. The rpm install
script should be updated to alter the permissions on this directory.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.0-2.fc3

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox.
2. Click on the search plugin drop down menu, top-right.
3. Select Add Engines...
4. Click on Wikipediea search plugin.
5. No new search plugin appears in search plugin drop-down.
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2005-01-30 14:57:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145862 ***
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