[PLUG] Re: firefox extension management

keith morse kgmorse at mpcu.com
Wed Dec 22 01:04:51 UTC 2004


Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 23:08:12 -0800, keith morse wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've been looking for documentation on managing firefox's extensions. I'd
>>like to install them once per system in order to have them available
>>  for any subsequent users of the system.  So far my feeble attempts
>>have not resulted in fruitfullness and the firefox website seems lacking
>>in documentation in this concern.  Ideas?
> 
> 
> Depending on how it was compiled, the system-wide directory for Mozilla
> and Firefox plug-ins is  .  It might be easiest to
> create this directory if/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

  it doesn't exist and chown it to your user, since
> that's how you'll be running Firefox.
> 
> Wil


Does this mean the user needs the ability to write in 
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins?

Seems a bit drastic for a multi-user system.



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