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lionel47
04-27-2004, 12:11 PM
Hi all,
I did an apt-get update last night and everything went fine except for Firefox. I can't launch it as a user from KDE or any other environment. However, I can launch it as rott from any of the same environments. I googled and checked this forum for an answer but couldn't find one. Can anyone help? :?
arkaine23
04-28-2004, 09:14 AM
How do you try to launch it?
ls -al /usr/bin/firefox
are there 3 x's in the permission bits?
lionel47
04-28-2004, 09:24 AM
The permission bits read as -rwxr-xr-x
So, I think they are right. Any suggestions? Thanks.
mightydavefish
04-29-2004, 01:26 AM
Go to a terminal as a user and run firefox from there. What does it say in the terminal for an error?
lionel47
04-29-2004, 01:52 AM
It says:
selected locale: en-US
And then goes back to the prompt. Hope this helps. Thanks.
Sir_Stinksalot
07-08-2004, 09:45 PM
I have this same problem can someone please help!
firebird however works fine
DuckDodgers
07-08-2004, 10:09 PM
This was in the readme from the firefox 0.9.1 download.
Note: If you install in the default directory (which is
usually /usr/local/mozilla), or any other directory where
only the root user normally has write-access, you must
start Mozilla first as root before other users can start
the program. Doing so generates a set of files required
for later use by other users.
gradnite
07-09-2004, 06:29 PM
This was in the readme from the firefox 0.9.1 download.
Note: If you install in the default directory (which is
usually /usr/local/mozilla), or any other directory where
only the root user normally has write-access, you must
start Mozilla first as root before other users can start
the program. Doing so generates a set of files required
for later use by other users.
I wish I could get firefox, but I haven't figured out apt yet, and on the list of everything in the apt I didn't see firefox listed. I'm too confused. :)
I did finally manage to un-install a couple things via apt.
mzilikazi
07-09-2004, 08:02 PM
Debian installs Firefox to an unwritable directory. You can't add extensions to FF w/out write permissions. You could get the installer from http://mozilla.org/ which is how I prefer to install FF.
wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.1/firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
tar xzvf firefox-0.9.1-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
cd firefox-installer/
./firefox-installer
This sets up firefox in ~ (/home/username). You can easily add extensions, themes etc. w/out worrying about root permissions. To run it do:
~/firefox-installer/firefox-bin
You can create a script to launch it for you:
touch firefox.sh
echo "/home/username/firefox-installer/firefox-bin" > firefox.sh
chmod +x firefox.sh
sudo mv firefox.sh /usr/bin
Now just create a luancher on your desktop or taskbar to run your new script by executing:
firefox.sh
probono
07-10-2004, 04:43 PM
klik://firefox (klik client must be installed) automates that for you.
avitygrai
08-17-2004, 07:50 PM
The new Firefox (0.9.3) creates its user configuration files in ~/.mozilla/firefox. I had the same problem on a SuSE distro (I had run the installation with sudo by habit) and it set the user and group ownerships to root.
Look in your home directory for a hidden folder named .mozilla with #>ls -al
If it's there, then switch to root and type the following:
#>chown -R username .mozilla
#>chgrp -R users .mozilla
...now when I start Firefox, I get:
(QFA)Talkback error: Can't initialize.
but firefox starts right up without a problem.
hth,
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