There seems to be some support in firefox for using it with sudo, so maybe you could use sudo to change the uid, since that seems to be the cause of the problem.
See the attached modified version of your testcase. This one works for me but I'm not sure if there are security issues with this approach... Regards, Mika ** Attachment added: "Modified testcase that works" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6425926/test-81207-mika.py -- webbrowser fails to open for system crash when it runs as root https://launchpad.net/bugs/81207 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
