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Firefox Problem after launching it in sudo mode

Asked by sundance2004

I wanted to update firefox from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4. I ran "sudo firefox" in terminal (Ubuntu 8.1) and chose "Check for updates" from "Tools" menu in Firefox. Nothing happened, I only got a message that there were no available updates. After that I closed the terminal and started firefox as usually - from the Applictions/Internet menu. And after all these manipulations my add-ons (foxmarks, web-mail checker, etc.) stopped working. I lost all the bookmarks. But when I run sudo firefox again, everything works. How do I restore all back? I don't wanna run Firefox in sudo mode constantly. Please, help. I'd appreciate.

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Best Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#1

I'm not sure this can be considered as a bug. As far as I can tell, this is not the proper way to update Firefox in Ubuntu; you should wait for a regular Ubuntu update.

I don't want to ruin my Firefox reproducing your problem, but I guess that the permissions of your .mozilla directory have been changed. You may want to try something like:

sudo chown -R user /home/user/.mozilla

replacing "user" by your user name.

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sundance2004 (sundance2004) said : 		#2

Thank you very much, your advice did help. Sorry, for being so dumb. But I'm relatively new to Linux.

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sundance2004 (sundance2004) said : 		#3

Thanks Arnaudus, that solved my question.

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Arnaudus (a-lerouzic) said : 		#4

Sorry if my answer was looking a bit harsh. It is not your fault at all; it is an Ubuntu bug to keep this update option if it does not work.