www/68531: firefox 9.1 source install problem

[Luke Weagant]

>Number:         68531
>Category:       www
>Synopsis:       firefox 9.1 source install problem
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-www
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jun 30 21:20:24 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Luke Weagant
>Release:        5.2.1
>Organization:
Mimic.ca
>Environment:
FreeBSD amnesia.maybox.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004     root at wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
      Download firefox9.1 source from the freebsd.org www ports collection, unpackage it and run a make build. everything goes perfectly.
Run make install... it runs for a minute then spits out a python error. Install would not go so i figured out how to do it manually... which led me to more problems.
>How-To-Repeat:
    
>Fix:
      I went into the build directory as root and tried running the firefox binary i had just compiled. it worked perfectly. i then decided i would just manually install the files in their proper directores. I created a symlink to the binary and changed back to my normal user. Firefox fails to start stating that it could not find an extension. I fixed this by changing to su and opening firefox. From inside the program i disabled the auto update feature and exited. When i changed back to normal user it finally started,  stating something about not having access to an extension. There was still a problem though... when i started the program it said 'default user in use. make new one' so i did. i quit the program and restarted and it gave me the same error once again and didnt show the profile i had just made in my home dir. i quit and sure enough the profile was there but firefox couldnt see it. I decided to edit the initialization file in my /home/user/.firefox/profiles/ to te
 ll it to open the new profile i had created. 
Now it works perfect, but hopefully you can now make it simpler for the next person
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