[SOLVED] Unable to open the web browser as root user
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It means that running your web browser as root is arguably the worst thing you could possibly do from a security standpoint. Explain why you want to give the entire internet root access to your system?
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I would suggest that if you don't know what the error message means you probably don't know enough to make the decision to run your web browser as root. It suggests to me you just have to specify a directory into which user data will be stored, since you're running the browser with a user it wasn't designed to be run as.
@snowpine I am studying how to configure apache web server 1.3.X under linux. In the book they mention all httpd operations are to be run as super user. As i log in to root, I wont be able to access internet for any help because i don't have a web browser.
I think you need a new book. The current Apache version is 2.2. Apache 1.3 dates to the 1990s and is now "end of life." Your book's suggestion to browse the web as root is, to be blunt, terrible advice.
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abhishekgit, there is no need to log in as root. You should log in as your usual user account then either open a "root terminal" if your distro provides it or open a terminal and su to root in the terminal. That way you can perform root commands in the terminal and open your browser as your normal user account.
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The current Apache version is 2.2. Apache 1.3 dates to the 1990s and is now "end of life." Your book's suggestion to browse the web as root is, to be blunt, terrible advice. 
