Mozilla Firebird (Extensions)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 17:08, Steve Peck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

Joe

> 
> Anyway,
> 
> install.log shows:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> http://www.stumbleupon.com/stumbleupon.xpi  --  10/04/2003 20:42:09
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      stumbleupon toolbar (version 0.1.0)
>      -------------------
> 
>      [1/2]      Installing: /home/steve/.phoenix/default/qjw16f4h.slt/chrome/stumbleupon.jar
>      [2/2]      Register Content: jar:file:///home/steve/.phoenix/default/qjw16f4h.slt/chrome/stumbleupon.jar!/content/stumbleupon/
> 
>      Install **FAILED** with error -239  --  10/04/2003 20:42:13
> 
> 
> So, I get the old 239 Error. There was a whole bugfix (bug 109044) about this and a patch etc...!
> Do you think thats got something to do with it?
> (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109044)
> 
> Oh, the FreeBSD Handbook, on browsers, says something about running Mozilla as root!
> I tried this and GTK just complains about not being able to open the display.
> The only way to do this is to run X as root, then open Mozilla. Is this right?
> 
> I've been searching around for a while now, but can't find anything else useful.
> I've cvsup'd the ports and re-installed firebird, but it didn't do the trick.
> 
> But, I hope you know something that can help. So over to you then ;-)
> 
> 
> Good Luck & Cheers
> Steve Peck
> 
> 
> BTW:
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD Orac 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Mon May 26 19:24:27 GMT 2003     root at Orac:/usr/src/sys/compile/ORAC  i386
> 
> 
> $ head /usr/ports/www/mozilla-firebird/Makefile
> # New ports collection makefile for:    mozilla-firebird
> # Date created:                 May 31, 2003
> # Whom:                         Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>
> #
> # $FreeBSD: ports/www/mozilla-firebird/Makefile,v 1.54 2003/09/06 18:34:37 marcus Exp $
> #
> 
> $ /usr/bin/perl --version
> 
> This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-freebsd
> 
> Copyright 1987-2002, Larry Wall
> 
> 
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