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

[notes at mozdev.org]

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/installing.html#c36

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

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

where $USERNAME should be the username under which you are currently logged in and $PROFILE is a sequence of alpha-numeric characters.

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

System-wide searchplugins (that can be used/viewed by any Mozilla Firefox users on the system) 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' to try and discover 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