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firefox package

  1. Bug #79540
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 79540

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chantra (chantra) wrote :

Hi,

> cd ~/.mozilla
> chmod -R u+w *

This did not work for me.

>chantra, if you can still reproduce this, can you please attach an
>strace? To do so, do
>
># strace -f firefox &> /tmp/strace_79540.txt
Yep, I attached it to the bug.

I created a new user account. This new user is able to install/uninstall, edit prefs ... in firefox. So the bug might be related to some kind of upgrade (I can't recall since when this started).