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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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