Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 08:22:57 +1300 From: James Pole <james@pole.net.nz> To: Steve Peck <steve@xmagic.co.uk> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird (Extensions) Message-ID: <1065295377.259.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost> References: <20031004210849.GA66156@localhost>
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 10:08, Steve Peck wrote: > Oh, the FreeBSD Handbook, on browsers, says something about running Mozilla as root! > I tried this and GTK just complains about not being able to open the display. > The only way to do this is to run X as root, then open Mozilla. Is this right? Can I ask why you would want to run Mozilla (or any browser) as root? Anyway, it should work fine regardless of what user it's run under. Mozilla works fine under a normal username on my machine and I suppose Mozilla (or at least Epiphany) should work when running under root. - James
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