273609 - Starting firefox causes the error messages: *** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application directory, skipping.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259978

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[JD]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I know this bug is already reported. I just wanted to add that
after installing firefox 1.0, I had to 
chmod 777 /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox-1.0/extensions

in order to stop the scrolling message:

*** loading the extensions datasource

I also want to add that I started firefox with the
argument -ProfileManager 
because I wanted to create a profile by my login name.

I am surprised that firefox has been released with so much
fanfare and it has this show-stopper problem.

Most linux users are not going to bother with chmodding
/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox-1.0/extensions to be world writable.

Let's hope for a quick fix.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install firefox as root
2. Run firefox as non-priviledged user.
3.

Actual Results:  
scrolling errors message 
*** loading the extensions datasource
until I chmod 777 /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox-1.0/extensions

then immediately firefox starts, and emits the error message:

*** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application
directory, skipping.
ex*** loading the extensions datasource
*** ExtensionManager:_updateManifests: no access privileges to application
directory, skipping.


Expected Results:  
firefox up and running without error messages

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

If this is already reported, add a comment to the existing bug and close this
bug as a dup.  Don't open new bugs on the same problem.

Comment 2

[Diego]

Please, confirm that your bug is a duplicate of bug#259978

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259978 ***