TESTERS WANTED: Firefox patch to initialize extensions directory as root

[Josh Paetzel]

On Friday 15 October 2004 21:10, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> I'm looking for testers to try out a patch that fixes the problem
> where Firefox wants to be run as root for the first time.  It seems
> to work fine for me, but I want to make sure it does the trick on a
> wide variety of setups.
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> To test this, download the patch from
> http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/firefox.diff, and apply it to
> the firefox port with the following sequence:
>
> # cd /usr/ports/www
> # patch -p < /path/to/firefox.diff
>
> Then upgrade firefox with portupgrade.  To verify the patch is
> working, start firefox from a terminal.  You should no longer see
> the error about running Firefox as root.
>
> Joe
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I did a cvsup of my ports tree, applied the patch to firefox and did a 
clean install.  Seems to work fine.

$  firefox
*** loading the extensions datasource
*** ExtensionManager:checkForMismatches: no access privileges to 
application directory!
*** loading the extensions datasource

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Thanks,

Josh Paetzel