SUDO goof-up

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 08:58:27AM -0400, Lee wrote:

> I tried running firefox running it threw a root terminal session.(Don't
> ask).
>  I did this command
>  sudo firefox
> And now when I try to launch firefox in user mode I get this pop-up
> window and it says: in a little title bar at the top of the window:
> Gecko and then in the pane
>               title="mainWindow. title;"
>  --------------------^
> So how can I reverse this goof-up? Thanks in advance.

Someone else reported a similar bug:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1307

but so far none of the developers are able to reproduce it.

I tried running firefox as root in order to test, but it still works as
expected for me.  However, you should never run firefox using sudo; this is
not a good idea as it could change the ownership of its configuration files
to root, leaving you unable to run firefox normally.

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 - mdz