On 20/06/09 23:49, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 20Jun2009 21:34, Erik P. Olsen <epodata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > | It turned out to be a permission problem with prefs.js. For some reason the > | ownership had been changed to root:root with mode bits 600. Changing it back > | to userID:userID and 644 solved the problem. But why it had been changed > | root ownership is a mystery to me. > > Almost certainly you started firefox as root, probably with $HOME set to > your own home dir. Do you use the "su" or "sudo" commands much? No, I always start firefox from a launcher in the panel and I have never set $HOME to anything. And I never edit prefs.js except from Edit -> Preferences and few times through about:config. -- Erik. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
