Re: firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything

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On 03/23/2010 10:01 PM, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
>
>    
>> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
>> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
>>
>> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
>> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
>>
>> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems.  No
>> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
>>
>> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
>> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
>> as described below).
>>
>> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
>> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
>> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
>> to save/capture pages.
>>
>> The default profile works as expected.
>>
>> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
>> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
>> look OK.
>>
>> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>      
> Since I had no replies here I tried to find some help on forums. A fellow
> asked me a question that helped me to see were I was unclear in my
> original post here. So, here some clarification.
>
> I did not synchronize any of application files between different
> distro's.  By stating:"I created "shared" profile on each system and
> synchronized them using Unison", I meant the following.
>
> I created new user profiles in Firefox and named them "shared" on all of
> my 3 systems.  The name could be any other, the goal was to keep the user
> profile names equal on each system in order to simplify Unison
> configuration files.
>
> The Fedora Firefox profile synchronized the way I described is fully
> functional except the little problem described.  I actually would rather
> call it a minor annoyance (since I use for save/download add-on's anyway)
> if not my wish to learn something new about Fedora, and, I still suspect,
> SELinux.
>
>    
He disabled SELinux but you still blame it?

Vitorio, what does getenforce say?
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