Firefox default extensions:many language packs

[Dotan Cohen]

On 16/06/06, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 20:23 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Also, only as root can I add search engines. According to the
> > archives, I'm not the only one.
>
> Yes, that's a stupid behaviour that I see as well.  Why don't they let
> users add their own search engines to their own profiles?
>
> You can make the program's directory that they're installed to writable
> by all, but I don't think it's a good idea.  For simplicity's sake I'll
> do that for a moment to add engines, then go back to the normal
> permissions, rather than fire up Firefox as the root user (which is slow
> to do, as well as has some risks).
>

Thanks for the work-around. I will do that next time.

Dotan Cohen
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