On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:03:09PM +0100, Werther Pirani wrote: > Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > >>i cant get FireFox to start! It built fine, no errors, > >>but it just doesnt start. > >> > >>(There's no output from doing that: > >> > >>$ firefox > > > >The same thing happens with mozilla. Apparently you have to > >run it as root, and then it works fine--is anyone else seeing > >this behavior? > > Just out of curiosity: are the permissions on ~/.mozilla okay? > > It's weird but, for some reason, I had mine changed from 700 to 600 and > experienced exactly the same behaviour.
How odd--yes, it wasn't exactly the permissions but the ownership was root instead of the ordinary user. When I chowned it to myself both programs work fine. Thanks for the suggestion. I wonder why more people aren't experiencing this. Jesse Sheidlower _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
