Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 19:39:14 -0400 From: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> To: Fridtjof Busse <fbusse@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't start Message-ID: <1113003554.817.2.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de> References: <20050408183249.505119b7.fbusse@gmx.de>
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On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:32, Fridtjof Busse wrote: > Hi > I just installed FreeBSD 5.4RC, everything works so fine. > Just firefox won't work (running xfce), neither the package nor the > port. I can only start it as root, under a normal user nothing happens > at all. /usr/X11R6/bin/firefox quits after a second and no firefox. > How can I fix this? > Thanks. At a guess, you may have created some configuration files owned by root the first time you started it. Try hunting them down and deleting them, and start firefox from a user account again. Also try running firefox from a command line in an xterm, if you haven't already done so, and see if there are any helpful error messages.
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