How to run Firefox1.5 without sudo

Sasha Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Tue Jan 24 06:53:54 UTC 2006


Mehdi Hassanpour wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> I have installed Firefox 1.5 from mozilla.org <http://mozilla.org>'s 
> tar package in /opt/firefox
> My problem is whenever I want to start Firefox I should start it with 
> sudo, and without sudo ot won't start...
> Is there any way that I can start Firefox without sudo ?
>
>
> Thanks
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Two ways:
1) sudo chmod a+rx /opt/firefox/*
2) install it in your home directory

Sasha




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