[Mycroft] Mycroft: [Installing] feedback from Leandro Brun

notes at mozdev.org notes at mozdev.org
Thu May 11 12:00:01 EDT 2006


http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/installing.html#c35

The correct location for Mozilla Search Plugins when installing manually (for Mozilla Firefox 1.5+/Windows XP) should now read:

C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\searchplugins\


where  (without the 's) should be the username under which you are currently logged in and  is a sequence of alpha-numeric characters.

Note that this will add the search plugin to 's Firefox instance and nobody elses which is the recommended method and will work whether you have administrative rights on the system or not.

System-wide searchplugins (that can be used/viewed by any Mozilla Firefox users) should be installed into:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins


For future reference, if this changes later on, and you cannot find your 'searchplugins' directory or folder, or if Mozilla Firefox has been installed into a non-standard directory/folder, try performing a system-wide search or find on the word 'searchplugins'  and see where it has moved to. This should work at least until Mycroft folks change the actual name from 'searchplugins' to something else...

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3


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