On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:53:55 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > The plugin Ghostery (blocks tracker) fails to start > and a reinstallations ends with this error message > (popup): > > "Ghostery cannot be installed because Firefox cannot > modify the needed file." > > Is this a proble of the plugin, a wrong permissions > setting via emerge/ebuild or a problem of my Gentoo > box?
I believe <http://www.ghacks.net/2015/01/16/fix-add-ons-not-working-in-firefox-35/> explains the problem. tl;dr: Setting the pref dom.indexedDB.enabled back to its default "true" works for me.