On 20/06/09 15:37, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 20/06/09 10:57, Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> Few days ago I updated firefox to firefox-3.0.11-1.fc10.i386 on my F10 >> system and since then it has started as if prefs.js does not exist. I can >> change the settings via Edit -> Preferences but they are disregarded at next >> start of firefox. >> >> Am I missing some option with this version or should I report the issue to >> bugzilla? >> > Further studies have shown that with a new profile changes can be made to > preferences, so it must be a problem migrating the old prefs.js to the new > version of firefox. Is there a way to verify the validity of a prefs.js? > 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. -- 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
