Mozilla Firefox

firefox display badly broken for additional users on system

Asked by marcus

Firefox is running great on my primary account... audio, video, java, everything.

I added two users to the system through the admin tools... Jaunty 9.04

When I logon with one of the new user accounts, which works fine, and try to run firefox, the
browser opens, but the displays are badly broken... images don't display, most fields are lines, most
java components are missing or broken... most web sites don't open correctly.

The ubuntu site *does* open correctly, however.

When I logon with my primary account and run firefox, all is well. What is going on here?

My other machine has multiple users without trouble... what got broken here? where to look?

thanks> marcus

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Delan Azabani (azabani) said : 		#1

Have you tried deleting the profiles from the accounts that are having trouble (and therefore allowing Firefox to create fresh ones)? Please also let me know what version of Firefox you're using.

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marcus (harrismh777) said : 		#2

Yes. I deleted all profiles... I deleted .mozilla and restarted... .mozilla got rebuilt but no good.

Then I make the second user an administrator and started firefox with sudo:

     sudo /usr/bin/firefox

then firefox started and ran perfectly. Sooo, its an authority problem. The frustrating thing here is that I do not have the slightest idea what I did differently on install (from the other four systems) that would cause this mess. What do I need to do system-wide to set the permissions for normal users short of reloading this silly thing?

thank you kindly, I appreciate your help,

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Delan Azabani (azabani) said : 		#3

Do note that running
  sudo /usr/bin/firefox
runs Firefox as root, meaning that the information is saved to root's profile. This means that no matter what account you run Firefox from, if you sudo, you'd be accessing root's Firefox profile.

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marcus (harrismh777) said : 		#4

Yes, but what is different? I think its permissions on some firefox compnents, but which ones... the sudo profile doesn't work in the other home dir... but even more frustrating than what is wrong... at this point... is how I broke it... and how I fix it short of reloading...?

thanks

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Delan Azabani (azabani) said : 		#5

The difference is that e.g. you have two other accounts, dan and bob, and both of them will be accessing a single - not different - profiles when they sudo in.

root firefox profile
dan firefox profile
bob firefox profile

When both of them sudo Firefox, they'll both be accessing root's Firefox profile.

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