If I recall .. there might be an issue with the firefox identity
do you have a preferences etc set for the non-root user ?? such things usually live in the user's home directory
good luck
Paul
Roger Searle wrote:
I am dual booting my work machine, and have succeeded in installing thunderbird so I can share the email store and address book via a symlink, and created a desktop icon to start it. Similar process with firefox, and am sharing the bookmarks via a symlink to the windows bookmark file. That is all great.
However my desktop icon to start firefox won't work, I can only start firefox as root via "file manager super user mode". The permissions of the folders containing each application appear to be the same:
seven:/usr/bin # ls -l | grep firefox drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 992 2005-05-09 13:09 firefox
seven:/usr/bin # ls -l | grep thunderbird drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1008 2005-03-18 01:58 thunderbird
and the permissions on the executable files the same:
seven:/usr/bin/thunderbird # ls -l | grep thunderbird -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6653 2005-03-18 01:42 thunderbird -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12928316 2005-03-18 01:57 thunderbird-bin
seven:/usr/bin/firefox # ls -l | grep firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6338 2005-04-14 22:16 firefox -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9785232 2005-04-14 22:16 firefox-bin
Ownership and permissions of the desktop icons are the same. What do I need to do to get the desktop icon to work for firefox?
Cheers, Roger
