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Hi everyone. I have installed Firefox, latest version, under root account in /usr/share dir. but now under regular user account i get an error message when i try to start ...
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    firefox error message

    Hi everyone. I have installed Firefox, latest version, under root account in /usr/share dir. but
    now under regular user account i get an error message when i try to start it:

    firefox-bin: undefined symbol: NS_NewUnionEnu

    anyone have any ideas?
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    Have you checked the permissions on the install directory? If the user doesn't at least have read permissions I could see how there would be problems.
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    Yes, that was the first thing i did. I have read + execute permission. That error message _must_ be give a clue though, it sounds like the name of a font (?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by GNU_man
    Yes, that was the first thing i did. I have read + execute permission. That error message _must_ be give a clue though, it sounds like the name of a font (?)
    Does it work correctly when you run it as root?
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    Nope. tried that too. root console SU reports same error message.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GNU_man
    Nope. tried that too. root console SU reports same error message.
    Then clearly not permissions issue. I've read of a number of issues with the latest version of ff. How about installing an earlier version. Every version of ff is available for dl.
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