Firefox 3.0.14 Does Not Keep Preference Setting Changes After VMWare Server 2.1 Installation

[rusivi2]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

1) sudo lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

2) sudo apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Candidate: 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com jaunty-security/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.0.8+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

3) I expected that changes made via:

Edit -> Preferences

would persist immediately after hitting the "Close" button, after exiting the Firefox application, and after an OS restart.

4) Recently installed VMWare Server as per Ubuntu documentation page:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server

After successfully installing VMWare Server, Firefox no longer kept any Preference changes via:

Edit -> Preferences

Tried restarted Firefox, restarting OS, no luck.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-16-generic i686

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Performed following commands that fixed problem:

sudo chown -R user:user ~/.mozilla

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Performed following commands that fixed problem:

sudo chown -R user:user ~/.mozilla