I can't save preferences

[Luisma]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0-gnome-support

I edit preferences but when I restart mozilla it comes to original .
ubuntu 8.04

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 1 10:01:19 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 08:06:40AM -0000, Luisma wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0-gnome-support
>
> I edit preferences but when I restart mozilla it comes to original .
> ubuntu 8.04

please run in a terminal:

 strace -f -eopen firefox &> /tmp/ffox.strace.txt

change a preference, then stop firefox

and attach /tmp/ffox.strace.txt to this bug

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[Lödur (loedur)]

I'm testing Ubuntu 9.04 alpha and I'd the problem, too.

For the attach I've tried to set the option "Always show the tab bar"

[naimdjon (naimdjon+ubuntu)]

I think the problem might be if you have started firefox ever with sudo the preferences file has been overwritten by root user and you no longer have rw permissions.

check the file (something like this):

ls -l ~/.mozilla/firefox/vkuuxfit.default/prefs.js

and if you are not the owner and you don't have the above mentioned permissions then you can give these permissions to yourself. This solved my problem.

[Diego (diebugger)]

@naimdjon:

than you, it was my problem too! I was operating as root, I forgot it and I did some plugin updates under sudo command.
Doing chown to that .js file solved my problem.