Weird firefox problem

[Daniel Robitaille]

> I downloaded and tried to install firefox 1.0 from the mozilla website.
> Using sudo on my system(Ubuntu Warty Warthog). I have installed firefox
> to /usr/local/firefox. But for some reason I can only run firefox using
> sudo. I check the permissions on the folder and the folder owner is root
> and the file group is staff. The special flag is set to Set Group Id and
>   number view is 2755. Does anybody have any idea on what I have done wrong?

is your ~/.mozilla/firefox directory in your home directory owned by
your user?  If you ran firefox using "sudo firefox", the ownership of
that .mozilla directory was probably partly changed to root, thus
preventing firefox to run unless you are root.

You will nedd to remove it, or change the ownership recursively ("chown -R ...")