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dr0p

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 120

[SOLVED] Not Able to Save FireFox Preferences

Well, I'm not sure how I did this, but about two weeks ago I managed to make it so that FireFox can't write my settings when run by a normal user, only when run as root.

Example of running FireFox under root (how it SHOULD look when I run firefox):

How it looks when I run it as a normal user:

I was wondering where the firefox config file(s) is kept so that I can modify it to have the correct permissions again. Thanks as always for the help.

Last edited by dr0p (2009-04-04 23:31:55)

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FrozenFox

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From: College Station, TX

Registered: 2008-03-23

Posts: 422

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Re: [SOLVED] Not Able to Save FireFox Preferences

Firefox config stuff is saved in ~/.mozilla/firefox . There is a profile.ini and a folder(s) corresponding to different profiles with seemingly randomly generated names. You can run firefox with a new/different profile to test your theory via

firefox -ProfileManager  I believe, before you possibly waste timing hunting down problems beyond the Profile.ini and the 'firefox' folder permissions.

Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-04-04 22:47:08)

dr0p

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From: Seattle, WA, USA

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 120

Re: [SOLVED] Not Able to Save FireFox Preferences

Thanks, I just had to change the permissions on prefs.js and it works fine now ^_^

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orph

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From: Montréal, Canada

Registered: 2009-03-01

Posts: 25

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Re: [SOLVED] Not Able to Save FireFox Preferences

I had the same problem and changing permissions on prefs.js in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<myprofile>/ fixed it.

Thanks.

Last edited by orph (2009-04-12 00:23:46)

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