Firefox problem, FreeBSD 5.3

[Jim Johnson]

I did run it from an xterm, I just ran it through truss and figured
out the problem.  For some reason my ~/.mozilla directory was permed
to root and not to my user account, anyway chown'ing it fixed that
problem.  Thanks for the quick response!

-Jim


On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 18:48:54 -0800, Michael C. Shultz <ringworm at inbox.lv> wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 06:22 pm, Jim Johnson wrote:
> > Hey all, I'm having an issue with Firefox.  When I go to run it
> > nothing at all happens.  No error messages are displayed and no
> > browser window pops open.  This makes is pretty hard to troubleshoot
> > anything.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could try?
> > My ports are fully up-to-date as of about 20 hours ago and it built
> > without a hitch.  If this is the incorrect forum for asking such
> > questions, please educate me with the correct e-mail address.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Jim
> 
> Did you try running it from an xterm? Try the following:
> 
> firefox &
> 
> and you should be able to see any messages on the term. By the
> way I just updated my ports (with sysutils/portmanager) and built
> firefox today on my 5.3 system and it ran fine...
> 
> -Mike
>