Friday, April 24 2009
Mood:
I was having some trouble with Firefox after installing the latest update (3.0.9).
I am using ubuntuzilla to manage the firefox updates and all. To update it, you need to run firefox as root (sudo firefox) and update from the Help menu.
However, after updating as recommended by ubuntuzilla, I found that I couldn't run firefox properly. That is, when I started it, it didn't remember my session, it didn't load my bookmarks, nothing, just a plain empty page. Not even the extensions were working properly.
To make it even more interesting, when I ran firefox as root it worked without any trouble :S
You should start to see the solution coming about. That's right, it was a permissions trouble, well not exactly. It was an OWNERSHIP trouble :)
Apparently when I updated the firefox as root, it overwrote some settings in my profile (~/.mozilla/firefox). The solution should be obvious now:
sudo chown -R myusername:myusername ~/.mozilla/firefox/myprofile.default
And that's it! Now go have fun with a fully functional (well, as best as it can be) Firefox :)
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