Justin E. Harlow III wrote:
> Crash Course wrote:
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>> I installed the newest version of mozilla an our or so ago. Everything
>> seemed to run fine until I tried to run it as myself instead of as root
>> (I installed it as root of course though).
>>
<snip>
>> I am running Mandrak 8.0 on a dell 733 mhz pent. III, 256 megs of
>> memory, 6 gig HD.
>>
>> Any ideas?!
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Crash
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>The chatter on bugzilla leads me to believe that there may be an
> imminent fix, but I tried the fixes they describe and they don't work.
>
> Has anyone solved this problem?
>
> JEH
This happened to me also. The only solution I found was to run the program as root -
just the browser, nothing else. Log into the machine as a normal user.
Just change the setting in your icon, the one you use to open the browser, to run as
root (KDE allows you to do this, I'm guessing Gnome does too) and supply the password.
I understand that programs are best run as the user that is logged in and that this is
for security reasons, but my position is that browsers are pretty secure in their own
right and will not make file system calls or other dangerous operations without first
notifying the current user. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Regards,
Bruce
(mdk8/moz0.9.2)
(linux newbie, but learning fast)
