Firefox 3.0.10

[Karl F. Larsen]

Tommy Trussell wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>    My laptop on both Intrepid and Jaunty has this Firefox browser and
>> for some reason when I try to save a Bookmark it fails, and anything I
>> have turned on when I turn off Firefox is lost. In fact Firefox acts as
>> if it has never been used.
>>
>>    The same version on Hardy works fine on my home computer. These
>> others are on my small laptop. I want them to work just like the one on
>> Hardy.
>>     
>
> Have you been setting permissions on your home directory, or did you
> copy or upgrade the system with a home directory from another
> installation?
>
> The permissions may wrong on either your home directory or just the
> .mozilla directory in your home directory -- it sounds like Firefox is
> not able to create the files it needs there. One way to check would be
> to open a terminal and look at what is shown when you use the command
> ls -la
>
> do you see a .mozilla directory at all? If so, does it have the same
> permissions as other directories? does it (and all the other files in
> your home directory) have your username listed as the user and group?
>
>   
    I googled and read lots things about how to get Firefox working. It 
was all confusing and bad. So I copied the .mozilla/firefox from Hart to 
the laptop and now they all work right.




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