Wilco Beekhuizen wrote:
> I don't know why the BLFS book still mentions to run firefox once as
> the root user, but I don't think this is necessary. I checked with
> firefox 2 and firefox 3 but both run fine without running firefox as
> root once.
> 
> It's this line:
> "You should run /usr/bin/firefox once as the root user (or any user
> with write privileges) to create some necessary additional files in
> the /usr hierarchy. "
> 
> So I guess this can be removed or am I missing something?

If you attempt to start Seamonkey (not tested with Firefix) from Xfce, it will 
work only from the second try, unless you registered the shrome by starting 
Seamonkey once as root, or by running this as root:

MFH=/usr/lib/seamonkey
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=$MFH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MFH $MFH/regxpcom
MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=$MFH LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$MFH $MFH/regchrome

So the book should be updated. The fact that one can't automate Firefox build 
using only the book's instructions is a bug.

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