Firefox 3b5 Hardy Heron
07/06/08 17:21 Filed in: Linux
In my impatience to see if I could get the very
latest Firefox 3 rc2 running on my new Hardy Heron
install, I ran “sudo firefox” from the terminal and
then an update with the built-in update feature.
Big mistake.
I broke Firefox in a bad way. None of the icons on the toolbar were available and there was general havock with the whole program.
It seems by running Firefox with sudo and then trying an update I had changed the ownership of some of the files to root, rather than my login.
The following command fixed the problem:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.mozilla
Firefox has now settled down but I don’t really trust it.
Rule number 1: let the synaptic package manager dish out the updates as they arrive, don’t jump the gun.
Big mistake.
I broke Firefox in a bad way. None of the icons on the toolbar were available and there was general havock with the whole program.
It seems by running Firefox with sudo and then trying an update I had changed the ownership of some of the files to root, rather than my login.
The following command fixed the problem:
sudo chown -R username:username ~/.mozilla
Firefox has now settled down but I don’t really trust it.
Rule number 1: let the synaptic package manager dish out the updates as they arrive, don’t jump the gun.