Firefox search engines won't install

[a2ms]

Hi! Every time i try to install a search engine for my firefox from http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ it just do not installs. I click int the name of the engine and it starts to think, but like 30 seconds later it stops and nothing happens. What can i do?

[lofwyr]

try to do it as root

[Brian1]

You need to change the permissions of the directory of searchengines. Use the command ' chmod 777 /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.9a/searchplugins '. The command must be run as root. Also you may need to change firefox-1.0.9a to whatever the directory name is there in /usr/lib if that is where it is installed.

Reason is root is the only one that can make changes to that directory. Running firefox as a user does not allow you to write to that directory. Changing to above permissions allows anyone to write to that directory.

Another way is to su in a terminal to root, start firefox from the command line, and then add the search engines like you are trying to do.

Brian1

[a2ms]

Thnx both of you. I prefered doing in without changing permissions and runninf Fx as root, now it all works