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xnooby2

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Registered: 2007-07-15

Posts: 104

user account cannot find firefox or flashplugin

When I log in as my user account, I have to type in the full path to run firefox: /opt/mozilla/bin/firefox and the flash plug-in does not play youtube videos.  When I am logged in as root, it finds the firefox executable and flash works properly inside firefox.  This is on a brand new install, so i must not have configured something?

xnooby2

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Registered: 2007-07-15

Posts: 104

Re: user account cannot find firefox or flashplugin

I reinstalled Arch and it worked. 

somairotevoli

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 335

Re: user account cannot find firefox or flashplugin

could have just added /opt/mozilla/bin to your path in /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-12-03 01:05:43)

xnooby2

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Registered: 2007-07-15

Posts: 104

Re: user account cannot find firefox or flashplugin

could have just added /opt/mozilla/bin to your path in /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc

I vaguely remembered something about having to run Firefox as root user the first time you use it for things to work properly, and I had not done that.  After I reinstalled, I visited youtube as root before I created my user account.  When I created the user account, it worked fine.  Maybe there is some truth to that "web browse as root first" ?

Or maybe I just needed to install Firefox before I created my user account.

Last edited by xnooby2 (2007-12-03 01:37:52)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: user account cannot find firefox or flashplugin

could have just added /opt/mozilla/bin to your path in /etc/profile or ~/.bashrc

I vaguely remembered something about having to run Firefox as root user the first time you use it for things to work properly, and I had not done that.  After I reinstalled, I visited youtube as root before I created my user account.  When I created the user account, it worked fine.  Maybe there is some truth to that "web browse as root first" ?

Or maybe I just needed to install Firefox before I created my user account.

your making a mountain out of a mole hill. It really isn't that hard. As the other guy said, your username didn't know where to find the binary, u could have easily changed that.