From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 20:24:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D6F16A41F for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:24:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944B343D72 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:24:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so505122wxc for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:24:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=aYwnpT4ytflQCRfUp0AblkF2pzRNGTqz1yMXlN/tUq8dqlFdtiLewa0JGWiTORn5hRMaZAdeDKxp3uX9Vg5CE18Rk43Ynbblau98lL4A39h92+NhTT9f4aw5vDNPtpA6hVRQunTDuCXMCWePMr5aYct10hfVvBUBayD9sO48P0I= Received: by 10.70.15.11 with SMTP id 11mr268294wxo; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:24:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.57.15 with HTTP; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:24:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:24:47 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <442D4CF1.3030504@ywave.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr> <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <200603311346.20633.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> <442CC3BA.5050902@bom.gov.au> <442D4CF1.3030504@ywave.com> Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:24:55 -0000 On 3/31/06, Micah wrote: > Wee-Sern Soo wrote: > > http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues > > > > It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, > > the first time. > > > > > > Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: > >> On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > >> > >>> This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before > >>> and what to try. > >>> > >>> Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program a= nd > >>> start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working > >>> fine. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> works for me too. many thanks :) > >> > >> > > A workaround that the port could use is given on that page.... > > "If Firefox 1.5.0.1 is installed on a multi-user system in a location > which is not writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged > user. If this is not desirable, an empty file must be created in the > following directory: > /extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest" > This sort of bizzare need to elevate general awareness and spiritual enlightenment in the browser using public is what drove me away from winders in the first place. I am not ranting against FreeBSD here. mozilla/firefox/netscape need to pull their collective heads out and build something that browses an interweb, not a file-installing-platform for your base system. -- --