Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:04:24 -0500 From: Mike Hauber <m.hauber@mchsi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net> Subject: Re: Firefox configuration problem Message-ID: <200502181804.24972.m.hauber@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050218214254.GA62739@kongemord.krig.net> References: <20050218214254.GA62739@kongemord.krig.net>
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On Friday 18 February 2005 04:42 pm, Bob Hall wrote: > uname -a > FreeBSD kongemord.krig.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE > #0: Mon Sep 13 00:17:04 EDT 2004 > root@kongemord.krig.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KONGEMORD0 i386 > > Port: firefox-1.0_7,1 > > Firefox can't write to its configuration files when I make > changes. I can manually edit them. The bookmark and prefs.js > files are both owned by the same user that runs Firefox. > > I had no problems with previous versions of Firefox. Version 1 > works fine on Windows. > > I've googled and searched the mail archives but I can't find > anything on this. Have you tried rm'ing ~/.mozilla/firefox? I seem to remember running into that after an upgrade a while back, but I don't remember what I did to solve it (I do remember deleting the directory and letting firefox recreate it, though). As a side note, don't forget to backup/export your bookmarks. That's something I _didn't_ do. :) hth, Mike
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