firefox or mozilla don't run

[nick holley]

On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 15:14:33 +0100, Didier Wiroth
<didier.wiroth at mcesr.etat.lu> wrote:
> I'm running xfce4 with xorg 6.7.0. When I try to launch firefox or mozilla. I get the >following error
> error: no running window found
> 
> To be able to run the apps, I need to:
> 1) xhost +local
> 2) su
> 3) type mozilla or firefox
> 
> Mozilla or firefox need to be run as root or don't run at all. What's the problem?

Check the permissions of the .mozilla directory in ~/; they might be
set as root:wheel which would make them unwritable by you and
therefore unable to start.

Nick