Closed Bug 1261757 Opened 8 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Firefox does not load all profile information properly after running in sudo (Ubuntu)

Categories

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect, P5)

Product:
Toolkit
Component:
Startup and Profile System
Version:
45 Branch
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: Davidgleich, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160304114936

Steps to reproduce:

1. Use your default firefox profile
2. run firefox in the terminal as sudo
3. run firefox again as normal user


Actual results:

firefox starts firstrun again, and using sync is not possible (unexpected error).
The error happens because when you run firefox as sudo it changes some files as root. Therefore they are owned by root and firefox as normal user can not access them anymore.
for undo just do chown -R user:usergroup /home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE


Expected results:

firefox should startup normal again
Component: Untriaged → Device Permissions
OS: Unspecified → Linux
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Component: Device Permissions → Untriaged
Component: Untriaged → Startup and Profile System
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
Depends on: 1323302
Priority: -- → P5
Running under sudo is unsupported and Firefox will no longer start in that situation; see bug 1323302.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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