516670 - file ownership changed if ff was invoked from within an sudo command

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Toralf Förster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090911 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090911 Gentoo Firefox/3.5.3

When I run "$>sudo ~/devel/wireshark/wireshark" click within wireshark at "homepage" then the following 2 files within my users home dir (tfoerste) have the "wrong" owner ship of "root" : cookies.sqlite-journal places.sqlite-journal.

This results in a ff warning, that the bookmark file can't be used b/c another app is using it. Furthermore this might be the root cause that sometimes I've to restore an older backup  to continue to use ff.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
Also, please consider using the most recent Firefox 4 beta build, your bug may be resolved there.

Comment 2

[Toralf Förster]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 ?
No :-)