Re: Global extensions

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Mark van Dijk <address@hidden> writes:

> Salutations,
>
> On Archlinux I have uninstalled my local profile's extensions. I've downloaded
> the .xpi files again, and I have placed them into /usr/lib/icecat/extensions.
> Then, after restarting icecat, I was hoping to see something along the lines 
> of
> a dialog that would ask me if I wanted to install these extensions. But alas,
> nothing like that came onto my screen.
>
> I have also tried to chmod the icecat dir to my username so that I have write
> permissions. But, that did not help.
>
> How can I get global extensions to work?

what happens if you extract the addon into /usr/lib/icecat/extensions?
You need to extract the .xpi file to an empty directory under
/usr/lib/icecat/extensions.
The sub-directory must have the name as the em:id field specified in the
addon install.rdf file.

Cheers,
Giuseppe