What happened to firefox

[Alain Muls]

On Monday 06 October 2008 12:20:12 Chris Rees wrote:
> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:55:48 +0200
>
> Alain Muls <alain.muls at telenet.be> wrote:
> > Hi Ubuntu users,
> >
> > Since yesterday my firefox always starts from scratch. What I mean is
> > that if I start up firefox, I have to walk through the extensions I
> > installed (eg. weather, down-them-all, addblock, ...) and the downloaded
> > themes can be selected but never get active.
> >
> > Everything was running fine until the day before yesterday, so what has
> > changed.
> >
> > Can I reinstall the previous version and how do I do that? I read about
> > dpkg pinning, but I do not know how to get back to the previous version.
> >
> > Tx/Alain
>
> Your problem is likely the permissions on ~/.mozilla.
>
> You need to run:
>
> $ sudo chown -R [your username here] ~/.mozilla
>
> $ sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~/.mozilla
>
> Yes, that is a capital X.

Hi, 

Tx for the advice, but the ~/.mozilla permissions are correct, they belong to 
me. Though I executed your commands, but still the same problem, having to ACK 
all extensions as if you start firefox the very first time. Very annoying!

Tx anyway/Alain

>
>
> Good luck
>
> Chris

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