From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Firefox silently fails to start if ~/.mozilla is owned by another user and can not be accessed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox=1.0.6-1.4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. chown root.root ~/.mozilla 2. chmod 700 ~/.mozilla 3. firefox Actual Results: Silent failure. Expected Results: An error or warning message would note the lack of access to ~/.mozilla. If possible, Firefox should execute without access to ~/.mozilla without features like on-disk caching after displaying a warning message. If not, an error should explain why Firefox exited. Additional info:
I'll check it.
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(In reply to comment #1) > I'll check it. Any results?
We filed this bug in the upstream database (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522477) and believe that it is more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream. We will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates. Thank you for the bug report.