What's odd (to me, anyway) is that I didn't have this problem with Firefox in RH9. Extensions and themes were as easy as on my WinXP notebook. But now I can only add extensions and themes when I'm using root's Firefox. Which is supremely frustrating. --- Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, joshua neff wrote: > > > Well, that worked for getting Sage on my root > Firefox, > > but not for any other user's Firefox. And since I > > generally log in as a user, rather than root, I > still > > can't use Sage or any other extension. > > Interesting. I couldn't get Wikepedia added to my > search engines even > running as root. No more ideas, sorry. > > > > > --- Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, joshua neff wrote: > > > > > > > I've tried adding themes and extensions > > > (especially my > > > > favorite, Sage) to Firefox PR, but the update > > > screen > > > > just hangs there, blank, and doesn't actually > > > install > > > > the updates. My Firefox is authorized to > accept > > > > updates from Mozilla, but it just hangs there. > Has > > > > anyone else had this problem? What can I do > about > > > it? > > > > > > I think I saw a reference to this in Bugzilla. > If > > > it's the same thing, > > > the problem is that Firefox want's to install > the > > > plugins to a system > > > directory (/usr/lib/firefox/...) but you don't > have > > > write permission. > > > Firefox could--but for some reason does not > > > yet--store them in ~/.mozilla. > > > The temporary workaround is to do the additions > as > > > root. > > > > > > -- > > > Matthew Saltzman > > > > > > Clemson University Math Sciences > > > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > > > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > > > > ===== > > --joshua m. neff > > > > www.goblin-cartoons.com > > > > > > > > _______________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! > > http://vote.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > ===== --joshua m. neff www.goblin-cartoons.com _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com
