56081 - Mozilla doesn't start after creating ~/.mozilla Dir (as non-root)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 41057

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Masato]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.10 i686)
BuildID:    20001005

if the ~/.mozilla Dir doesn't exist, Mozilla creates the default profile. After
this it don't open an window. 
(If you already have an valid profile Mozilla starts.)
As root mozilla creates the Profile and start normally.

Mozilla don't crash (the mozilla-bin's still running) but they may hang.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Mozilla as root
2. login as user 
3. remove/rename ~/.mozilla
4. start mozilla

Maybe there is a relation to the bug#56080

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

probably a dupe of the need root to start once to run mozilla bug....

Comment 2

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

duplicate of bug 41057

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41057 ***

Comment 3

[Hans Peter Groendal]

Verified, this is a duplicate of bug 41057 "Mozilla should not need write access
to the binary directory."