Firefox bookmarks gone! (more info)

[Kevin Krumwiede]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 03:05:29 -0400
Dave Miller <justdave at canonical.com> wrote:

> Actually, what more likely happened is it loaded YOUR bookmark file
> fine when you ran it as root, then saved it again AS ROOT to your
> profile directory.  The bookmarks file is then owned by root, and
> readable only by root.

Why would opening and saving a file as root change its ownership or
permissions?

Krum