Ouch, I forgot to send my earlier reply to this to the whole of slug,
and not just the original poster. :P My reply was:

I had this exact problem, out of the box, on Ubuntu 6.06. After a
while of playing around, I found that the problem was that the config
and profile directory, ~/.mozilla was owned by root, and the user
running firefox couldn't write to it. I did something like "sudo chown
-R david:david /home/david/.mozilla" to fix the problem, which reset
the owner and group of the mozilla directory to user david and group
david. Then firefox worked. :D You will probably want to replace
"david" with your user.


On 2/28/07, Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
try moving/renaming the /home/username/.mozilla  directory.

you can do it in a terminal with the following command

mv  ~/.mozilla   ~/.mozilla-bak

Or just use a file browser and rename the folder.

**NOTE** make sure you have "show hidden folders" turned on if you use the
later method.

Richard Neal

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:40:23 pm Rosemary MacPherson wrote:

>
> Can anyone assist please?
>
> Words of one syllable or less would be appreciated wit every step defined
> as I have no prrevious Linux experience.
>
> Cheers
>
> Stewart MacPherson
> ( using my wife's email account - hence the Rosemary)
>
> Mac from the Mountains


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