Java allows root access without permission?

[Michael Cronenworth]

Phil Meyer wrote:
> The only way that could happen is if you were logged in, or otherwise
> running the browser as user root.

$ ps -ef | grep firefox
502       2651     1  0 08:42 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh 
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox
502       2668  2651  2 08:42 ?        00:09:53 
/usr/lib64/firefox-3.6/firefox
502      12658  5019  0 15:42 pts/5    00:00:00 grep firefox

id 502 is me, a non-root user.