[H-GEN] xwin error

[Matthew Sellers]

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 12:06:02 +1000
James Brown <alumnus at bigpond.com> wrote:
>             My problem is this: debian worked fine for some time but one
> day I found that mozilla would crash - It would load but when I went to
> the first page it would crash.  No moans, groans or error messages. 
> Just silently crashed.  Somehow I found that if I ran mozilla as root
> with no settings ie.
> >su
> ?password?
> >mozilla &

Avoid using su or sudo with mozilla

Check that all of the files in ~/.mozilla/ are owned by you and not root.
There may be a possibility that files were created when mozilla was running
as root. If that is the case it may be possible that mozilla can't access
its configuration files when run as your normal user because they are owned
by root.

-- 
Matthew Sellers

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