changes in Firefox are not kept

[Justin C. Sherrill]

On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:07 am, Huub wrote:
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>> Try starting from a terminal as normal user and check the output.
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> I did that and found nothing odd compared with the root. Can you tell me
> what specific output should be there with what rights?
>

If I recall correctly, the preferences are kept in ~/.mozilla/firefox (or
at least firefox1 does) - does that directory exist?  If it does, try
renaming it, and then starting firefox again, and see if it recreates the
directory.