Closed Bug 318064 Opened 20 years ago Closed 16 years ago

don't run firefox under sudo -s!

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
1.0 Branch
Platform:
x86
FreeBSD
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: jason.dusek, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051128 Firefox/1.0.7 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051128 Firefox/1.0.7 i ran sudo -s, forgot what was going on, and then popped up X. everything was strange - so i opened firefox and went searching. then i realized that i was root, so i logged out and logged back in - then firefox was strange. i got the error reported in bug 248326 - a window popped up to tell me that all my extensions were disabled. i logged back out yet again, ran chown -R me:me on .mozilla, and still my extensions were not okay. Reproducible: Didn't try
This is a general problem that can affect other profile files besides just extensions. Firefox -> General
Component: Extension/Theme Manager → General
QA Contact: extension.manager → general
Version: unspecified → 1.0 Branch
Please use a recent version of Firefox, available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/, and report back with your results in relation to this bug report. If this problem can be reproduced, please reopen this bug report. Due to age/lack of response, closing. (bug cleaning)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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