Mozilla and Firefox fail to start

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:27:56PM -0500, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> On Monday 31 January 2005 11:07 pm, Mac Mason wrote:
> > "So", I say to myself, "wouldn't it be nice to have firefox?"
> >
> > So, cd to the right place, make install clean...
> >
> > and then try to run it...and it thinks for two or three seconds,
> > and hands me my prompt back.
> >
> > No core file, no browser, no error message.
> >
> > "Hm..." I think to myself. "...maybe mozilla will work."
> >
> > So, I repeat the same process.
> >
> > And mozilla won't start either; it does the very same thing.
> >
> > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, with the most-recent errata.
> >
> > Any ideas?

IIRC, you have to start Mozilla and firefox the first time as root.

Roland
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