From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 Description of problem: If you run epiphany while logged in as root, when epiphany exits it writes to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/components/compreg.dat and from that point onwards Mozilla doesn't work fully. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mozilla-1.4.1-18 and epiphany-1.0.4-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log in as root. 2. Launch epiphany, then exit. 3. Try to use Mozilla. Actual Results: Various things in Mozilla stop working. Some examples are the location bar stops remembering new URLs (though existing ones stay there) and you can no longer download files (clicking on stuff has no effect). Expected Results: Mozilla should not break after using epiphany. Additional info: You can fix Mozilla by reinstating the /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4.1/components/compreg.dat file to the way it was before you ran epiphany. Redhat Linux 9 had the same problem exactly in that running galeon toasted Mozilla. Since epiphany can run with the compreg.dat file as is, why have it write to the file at all? If non root users run ephiphany, it *can't* write to the file anyhow.
Epiphany adds to the internal list of components and writes it out to disk when it exits. Sigh.
Running current Rawhide, I can't reproduce this. I tested all the things that you reported to be broken after running epiphany as root, then mozilla as both root and a user. /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7/components/compreg.dat wasn't written to. Does this problem still exist in FC2?
Not that I know of. Marking CURRENTRELEASE.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I cannot reproduce this bug in FC2. Looks like Epiphany doesn't write out to the compreg.dat file any longer.