[SOLVED] firefox profile synchronized w. unison cannot save anything

[Vitorio Okio]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:48:05 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:

> I have 3 PCs running Hardy, Karmic, and Fedora 12, with Firefox on each
> of them: v. 3.0.18 on Hardy and v. 3.5.8 on both Karmic and Fedora.
> 
> I created "shared" profile on each system and synchronize them using
> Unison. Ubuntu 8.04 is a base system for synchronization.
> 
> The synchronization itself works just fine on all 3 systems.  No
> problems what's ever on either of Ubuntu's.
> 
> In Fedora however I'm having a problem. While using "shared" profile I
> can save neither a web page nor a download (unless I use some of add-on'
> as described below).
> 
> If either Save Page As... or Save Link As... menu items are selected the
> requests are simply ignored with no response from FF. However using
> Download Them All ad-on does the job. Equally Scrapbook add-on allows me
> to save/capture pages.
> 
> The default profile works as expected.
> 
> I thought SELinux is on the way but disabling it (for a test sake) did
> not changed things. All permissions in "shared" profile directory to me
> look OK.
> 
> I'm new to Fedora and cannot figure it out myself, need you help, folks.

I've solved it. The problem had nothing to do either with Fedora or 
SELenux but silly me. :-)