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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2006 07:38:25 -0800
From:      Micah <micahjon@ywave.com>
To:        W.Soo@bom.gov.au
Cc:        Yuan Jue <yuanjue02@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade
Message-ID:  <442D4CF1.3030504@ywave.com>
In-Reply-To: <442CC3BA.5050902@bom.gov.au>
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>

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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 and
>>> 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"

Later,
Micah



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