From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 4 14:53:05 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EF7816A4B3 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:53:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from comrie.uwaterloo.ca (comrie.math.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.216.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A440243FE0 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:53:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca) Received: from cs.uwaterloo.ca (comrie [129.97.216.108]) by comrie.uwaterloo.ca (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h94LqxMQ074448; Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:53:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mpatters@cs.uwaterloo.ca) Message-ID: <3F7F413E.4050601@cs.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 17:53:02 -0400 From: Mike Patterson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030924 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost> <1065297899.27243.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1065297899.27243.21.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: Steve Peck Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird (Extensions) X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2003 21:53:05 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote on 04 Oct 2003 16:04: > On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:08, Steve Peck wrote: >> >>The port says this is where I should post any bugs, so here we go:- >> >>I get some of the extensions for Firebird, in the extension list, to install just fine. >>from http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions/ >> >>However, the one I really want - StumbleUpon - just wont. >>(http://www.stumbleupon.com) >> >>It seems to think the file permissions are wrong (for the chrome dir?). But, IMHO, they're not! >>Firstly beause other extensions install OK, >>and I'm not sure chmod -R o+rw is a particularly good idea. > > > I believe some extensions can only be installed if you're running > Firebird as root. Extensions that run for everybody want to go in the Firebird system directory. Some extensions will install and function properly in a user's profile - this has the added advantage that one does not need to re-install the extension after one upgrades versions of Firebird. (ie, the former go under /usr/whatever-it-is and the latter go under ~/.phoenix.) Of course, many extensions have problems running under any version of FB/Moz other than the one that happened to be most recent when they were written. I found, unfortunately, that the only way to handle extensions well was to either make the appropriate directories under /usr world writable, or as you say, to install the extensions while running FB as root. (I believe I ran into problems there too, but I can't recall for sure.) I don't think there's a good way to handle this. :~( - ie, it's not a bug, it's behaviour by design. For whatever it's worth, it's a problem with the Windows port as well. (I solve that by running always with Administrator privileges, and not pretending that my XP box is secure. ;) ) Mike