I've downloaded and extracted thunderbird and firefox. I can run them as root, but how do I change them so I can run them as user? I've tried the following;
Thanks

# chmod u+x /home/user/DOWNLOADS/thunderbird/thunderbird
# chown user /home/user/DOWNLOADS/thunderbird/thunderbird

# chown user /home/user/DOWNLOADS/firefox/firefox
# chmod u+x /home/user/DOWNLOADS/firefox/firefox


ALSO, how do install emacs? I downloaded and extracted emacs-21.4/ but can't config it.


SORRY. Just remembered how to read the README and INSTALL files!!!

A standard path for Firefox is /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/
It shouldn't be chown'ed (of course you should have permissions for reading and executing), but you will not be able to update it thru FF's menu (Help->Check_for_Updates...) if you do not have write permissions.
should help you, but I have no idea why it doesn't work from the homepage, may be
is what you need?

Igor