firefox --install-global-extension does not work on feisty?

[Randall J. Parr]

Caleb Marcus wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 16:57 -0800, Randall J. Parr wrote:
>> On other distributions (eg old Red Hat's) using firefox 2.0.0.11 I can 
>> install global extensions using
>>
>> # firefox --install-global-extension some-extension.xpi
>>
>> This does NOT work on my Ubuntu Feisty install though (firefox 2.0.0.11). 
>> There are no errors; but nothing seems to happen either.
>>
>> Does anyone know if this does/should work on Ubuntu?
>>
>> Thanks
>> R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts
>>
>>
>>     
> If you're going to make global changes, you need to be root... it 
> seems that you were running the command as root on Red Hat because the 
> prompt in your command is # and not $. To run a command as root on 
> Ubuntu, put sudo before the command... making it < sudo firefox 
> --install-global-extension some-extension.xpi > 


Have you confirmation that this works when run as root?

I am (and was) performing this as root; it still does NOT seem to work 
on Ubuntu Feisty.

R.Parr