On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:36:46PM +0100, S. Thommerel wrote:

> To reproduce this bug:
> 
>  su root and then load firefox from the term. Then launch firefox from
>  another unrelated and normal user terminal. The newly launched firefox reads 
> root's
>  profile and gets root's rights.

  Isn't this expected behaviour from Firefox?  When invoking new copies
 it doesn't spawn an independent new instance, instead it connects to
 the already-running instance?

  I guess it's a security hole in a sense...

Steve
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