Re: Firefox not reading prefs.js [SOLVED]

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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?
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