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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergeing Firefox 35.0 breaks Ghostery ... fixable?
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 02:05:24
Message-Id: 20150117200429.73c3173f@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Emergeing Firefox 35.0 breaks Ghostery ... fixable? by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:53:55 +0100
2 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
3
4 > The plugin Ghostery (blocks tracker) fails to start
5 > and a reinstallations ends with this error message
6 > (popup):
7 >
8 > "Ghostery cannot be installed because Firefox cannot
9 > modify the needed file."
10 >
11 > Is this a proble of the plugin, a wrong permissions
12 > setting via emerge/ebuild or a problem of my Gentoo
13 > box?
14
15 I believe
16 <http://www.ghacks.net/2015/01/16/fix-add-ons-not-working-in-firefox-35/>
17 explains the problem.
18
19 tl;dr: Setting the pref dom.indexedDB.enabled back to its default
20 "true" works for me.