Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 19:39:58 -0500 From: Bob Hall <rjhjr@cox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox configuration problem Message-ID: <20050219003957.GA63394@kongemord.krig.net> In-Reply-To: <200502181804.24972.m.hauber@mchsi.com> References: <20050218214254.GA62739@kongemord.krig.net> <200502181804.24972.m.hauber@mchsi.com>
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:04:24PM -0500, Mike Hauber wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2005 04:42 pm, Bob Hall wrote: > > uname -a > > FreeBSD kongemord.krig.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE > > #0: Mon Sep 13 00:17:04 EDT 2004 > > root@kongemord.krig.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KONGEMORD0 i386 > > > > Port: firefox-1.0_7,1 > > > > Firefox can't write to its configuration files when I make > > changes. I can manually edit them. The bookmark and prefs.js > > files are both owned by the same user that runs Firefox. > > > > I had no problems with previous versions of Firefox. Version 1 > > works fine on Windows. > > > > I've googled and searched the mail archives but I can't find > > anything on this. > > Have you tried rm'ing ~/.mozilla/firefox? I seem to remember > running into that after an upgrade a while back, but I don't > remember what I did to solve it (I do remember deleting the > directory and letting firefox recreate it, though). > > As a side note, don't forget to backup/export your bookmarks. > That's something I _didn't_ do. :) Thanks. I tried deleting just the config file and bookmark file, but that didn't work. Deleting the entire .mozilla directory (after backing up) did the trick. Bob
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