Firefox preferences failing to save

[Eamonn Sullivan]

Ah, thanks. That did the trick. Since this was a fresh install, I
hadn't built up any preferences worth saving. I just deleted .mozilla,
relaunched Firefox and everything worked as expected. Thanks much.


----- Original Message -----
From: Erich Hoover <ehoover at mines.edu>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 13:14:09 -0600
Subject: Re: Firefox preferences failing to save
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com>



 Erich Hoover wrote: 
 I had this problem too, it ended up being that my profile from 0.9
was corrupt/incompatible and had to be rebuilt.  I did a variety of
things before I got things to work, most notably deleting all
extension directories, the extensions.rdf file, the chrome.rdf file,
all the "dat" files in the main directory and all the "db" files in
the main directory (make backups first and try replacing them
one-by-one so you can get most of your profile back).  All of this
stuff is stored in ~/.mozilla/firefox/<psuedo-random name>/.  If you
don't care about your profile just run firefox with the
-ProfileManager option and make a new one, that should accomplish the
same thing.
 
 > I just installed FC3T2 yesterday,
 did a full up2date, and have run 
 
 > into a minor problem: When I launch Firefox (which is now version 
 
 > 1.0PR), I get the following message: "Failed to save the
 preferences 
 
 > file. Any preference changes will be lost at the end of the
 session."
 
 > And, sure 'nuf, they are lost. I've tried running Firefox as root,
 
 > and that saves preferences fine. I run into this problem only when
 
 > running as a normal user. Any ideas?