Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:24:47 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade Message-ID: <d7195cff0603311224n1d46ddb9tfb68ae38bca27cb7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <442D4CF1.3030504@ywave.com> References: <442C4D2D.6010603@ywave.com> <20060330235303.GA461@math.jussieu.fr> <200603301918.20035.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <200603311346.20633.yuanjue@yuanjue.net> <442CC3BA.5050902@bom.gov.au> <442D4CF1.3030504@ywave.com>
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On 3/31/06, Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> wrote: > Wee-Sern Soo wrote: > > http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/1.5.0.1.html#issues > > > > It's a known issue. Need to run as privileged user on all platforms, > > the first time. > > > > > > Yuan Jue wrote the following on 31/03/2006 4:46 PM: > >> On Friday 31 March 2006 09:18, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > >> > >>> This happened to me also, until I remembered this has happened before > >>> and what to try. > >>> > >>> Login as root, start the GUI (mine is KDE), open a terminal program a= nd > >>> start firefox from there. After that, I had no problems. It's working > >>> fine. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> works for me too. many thanks :) > >> > >> > > A workaround that the port could use is given on that page.... > > "If Firefox 1.5.0.1 is installed on a multi-user system in a location > which is not writable by users, Firefox must be run once by a privileged > user. If this is not desirable, an empty file must be created in the > following directory: > <install-directory>/extensions/talkback@mozilla.org/chrome.manifest" > This sort of bizzare need to elevate general awareness and spiritual enlightenment in the browser using public is what drove me away from winders in the first place. I am not ranting against FreeBSD here. mozilla/firefox/netscape need to pull their collective heads out and build something that browses an interweb, not a file-installing-platform for your base system. -- --
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