On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 03:45:27AM -0000, Rohit Arondekar wrote: > Hello, > The problem happens when you use Firefox as a root user. This has happened to > me twice. You can fix the problem by creating a new profile using the Profile > Manager of Firefox. However you will loose extensions and bookmarks and all > your settings. Instead I found a simpler way - the problem apparently is that > the file "places.sqlite-journal" in your 'corupted' profile folder gets > literally owned by root. That is the file owner is now root - so to solve > this problem just run - > > sudo chown <your_username> > /home/<your_username>/.mozilla/firefox/<profilename>/places.sqlite- > journal > > That solved my problem - I am sure that that is the only file that gets > affected by running Firefox 3 as root. >
firefox probably also changes files in the system hierarchy (e.g. /usr/lib/firefox-3.0) ... could you test and report which files are affected there as well? - Alexander -- Disabled buttons and an "inactive" address bar https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231472 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
