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Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2005 15:25:38 -0500
From: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>
To: Werther Pirani <werther.pirani@nexgo.de>
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Subject: Re: FireFox not starting in 6.0
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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