Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 15:25:38 -0500 From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> To: Werther Pirani <werther.pirani@nexgo.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FireFox not starting in 6.0 Message-ID: <20051203202538.GA28990@panix.com> In-Reply-To: <4391F9FD.8000803@nexgo.de> References: <20051203043336.34840.qmail@web53411.mail.yahoo.com> <20051203184823.GA18894@panix.com> <4391F9FD.8000803@nexgo.de>
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On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:03:09PM +0100, Werther Pirani wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > >>i cant get FireFox to start! It built fine, no errors, > >>but it just doesnt start. > >> > >>(There's no output from doing that: > >> > >>$ firefox > > > >The same thing happens with mozilla. Apparently you have to > >run it as root, and then it works fine--is anyone else seeing > >this behavior? > > Just out of curiosity: are the permissions on ~/.mozilla okay? > > It's weird but, for some reason, I had mine changed from 700 to 600 and > experienced exactly the same behaviour. How odd--yes, it wasn't exactly the permissions but the ownership was root instead of the ordinary user. When I chowned it to myself both programs work fine. Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder why more people aren't experiencing this. Jesse Sheidlower
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