Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 17:03:31 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TESTERS WANTED: Firefox patch to initialize extensions directory as root Message-ID: <200410151703.31980.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <41703CE3.1070305@marcuscom.com> References: <41703CE3.1070305@marcuscom.com>
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On Friday 15 October 2004 21:10, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I'm looking for testers to try out a patch that fixes the problem > where Firefox wants to be run as root for the first time. It seems > to work fine for me, but I want to make sure it does the trick on a > wide variety of setups. > > To test this, download the patch from > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/firefox.diff, and apply it to > the firefox port with the following sequence: > > # cd /usr/ports/www > # patch -p < /path/to/firefox.diff > > Then upgrade firefox with portupgrade. To verify the patch is > working, start firefox from a terminal. You should no longer see > the error about running Firefox as root. > > Joe > > - -- I did a cvsup of my ports tree, applied the patch to firefox and did a clean install. Seems to work fine. $ firefox *** loading the extensions datasource *** ExtensionManager:checkForMismatches: no access privileges to application directory! *** loading the extensions datasource -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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