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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