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cc: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Firefox configuration problem
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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