FireFox settings

amer_58 · 03-14-2005, 08:09 AM

After creating my new user I am trying to configure my firefox bookmarks,,,, I cant do anything, when I go to my shell:

su
I type my password.
then I go to my user dir

cd firefox
./firefox

the firefox loads as it was created on the root account, and thats how I want it to be through my new use, but I cant do that.... Why?

0pal_t0ad · 03-14-2005, 08:19 AM

as root, type ls -a /root
there might be a dir called .firefox, which would hold personal settings. if there is, just copy it over to /home/[newuser]/.firefox

then you might need to set the ownership of the dir and everything in it. try chown -R [newuser] /home/[newuser]/.firefox

*edit*

if there is no .firefox dir, it might be .mozilla, just look for anything to do with firefox, but it must be preceeded by a '.'

amer_58 · 03-14-2005, 09:02 AM

This is exactly what is going on, I have a folder called firefox-installer which is located under my /home/moderator/firefox-installer/firefox

on my root desktop I Have added the shortcut of firefix like this:

/home/moderator/firefox-installer/firefox and it works perfeclty when I load it, but when I login as with my user account(not root) it wont work(meaning I dont have my bookmarks and theme as its on my root):

I have changed the permission of the folder:

I typed this:

chown -R moderator /home/moderator/firefox-installer

and this is what I have now

Code:

root@Admin:/home/moderator# ls -l firefox-installer
total 14060
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root     219 2005-02-25 20:30 browserconfig.properties
drwxr-xr-x  4 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 chrome/
drwxr-xr-x  3 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 components/
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root   41433 2005-02-26 06:30 config.ini
drwxr-xr-x  5 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 defaults/
drwxr-xr-x  2 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 extensions/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root    6338 2005-02-25 20:30 firefox*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root 9778768 2005-02-25 20:30 firefox-bin*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root    1699 2005-02-26 06:30 firefox-installer*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root 1192940 2005-02-26 06:30 firefox-installer-bin*
drwxr-xr-x  2 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 greprefs/
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root    8976 2005-02-26 06:30 header.png
drwxr-xr-x  2 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 icons/
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root    3289 2005-02-26 06:30 install.ini
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root   26615 2005-03-14 03:59 install.log
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  449428 2005-02-25 20:30 libmozjs.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  177164 2005-02-25 20:30 libnspr4.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  409468 2005-02-25 20:30 libnss3.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  198152 2005-02-25 20:30 libnssckbi.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root   15272 2005-02-25 20:30 libplc4.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root    8240 2005-02-25 20:30 libplds4.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  134188 2005-02-25 20:30 libsmime3.so*
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root     476 2005-02-25 20:30 libsoftokn3.chk
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  419824 2005-02-25 20:30 libsoftokn3.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  125824 2005-02-25 20:30 libssl3.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  665424 2005-02-25 20:30 libxpcom.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root   94888 2005-02-25 20:30 libxpcom_compat.so*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root    7736 2005-02-25 20:30 libxpistub.so*
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root    6423 2005-02-26 06:30 license.txt
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  236671 2005-02-25 20:30 mozilla-xremote-client*
drwxr-xr-x  2 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 plugins/
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root     335 2005-03-14 03:58 registry
drwxr-xr-x  7 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 res/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root   10897 2005-02-25 20:30 run-mozilla.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 moderator root    4096 2005-03-14 03:59 searchplugins/
-rw-r--r--  1 moderator root   55809 2005-02-26 06:30 watermark.png
drwxr-xr-x  2 moderator root    4096 2005-02-26 06:30 xpi/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moderator root  147500 2005-02-25 20:30 xpicleanup*

What else am i missing?

0pal_t0ad · 03-14-2005, 09:11 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 0pal_t0ad
as root, type ls -a /root

could you post the output please?

amer_58 · 03-14-2005, 09:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 0pal_t0ad
could you post the output please?

root@Admin:~# ls -a /root
./ .bash_history .gftp/ .kderc .thumbnails/
../ .cache/ .gnome/ .local/ .xine/
.DCOPserver_Admin_:0@ .config/ .gnome2/ .mailcap .xinitrc
.DCOPserver_Admin__0 .cpan/ .gnome2_private/ .mcop/ Desktop/
.ICEauthority .esd_auth .gnupg/ .mcoprc loadlin16c.txt
.Xauthority .firefox/ .gstreamer-0.8/ .mozilla/ loadlin16c.zip
.anjuta/ .fullcircle/ .gxine/ .qt/
.aspell.en.prepl .gconf/ .ispell_english .recently-used
.aspell.en.pws .gconfd/ .kde/ .themes/
root@Admin:~#

0pal_t0ad · 03-14-2005, 09:25 AM

if you type ls -a /root then ls /root, you'll notice that there's less dirs the second time, that's because the dirs preceeded by '.' are hidden and used to store user preferences. the one we're interested in is ".firefox". You need to copy it to your /home/moderator dir and change ownership with chown.
to copy it you need to use the cp command. i can't remember the syntax off the top of head unfortunately but i think it's something like 'cp -r /root/.firefox /home/moderator/.firefox' if that doesn't work read up on it using 'man cp'

amer_58 · 03-14-2005, 09:50 AM

Ok this is driving me crazy I have almost changed everything to 777:

This is what I have now, I have also copied the .firefox from root into /home/moderator/

root@Admin:/home/moderator# ls -l .firefox
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 2 moderator root 4096 2005-03-14 05:32 plugins
root@Admin:/home/moderator#

...? this is insane....

mjjzf · 03-14-2005, 10:03 AM

Is this a problem? Isn't it just that the setting-file is different for user root and user moderator? couldn't you just export bookmarks to file and import them as the user? Same with the theme file?

amer_58 · 03-14-2005, 10:21 AM

I did that, but somehow it wont allow me doing certain things, for example I have bookmarks toolbar folder and it wont appear no matter what... There is even one folder that I cant delete, I have tried installing it and reinstalling it again but it wont work,

0pal_t0ad · 03-14-2005, 10:24 AM

have you done the 'chown -R moderator /home/moderator/.firefox' part?

amer_58 · 03-14-2005, 10:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by 0pal_t0ad
have you done the 'chown -R moderator /home/moderator/.firefox' part?

Thanks guys got it working now..... somehow my bookmarks were corrupted so I deleted them rm import my bookmarks again, made my permission and it works now.

Thanks.