Firefox preferences failing to save

[Erich Hoover]

Erich Hoover wrote:

> I had this problem too, it ended up being that my profile from 0.9 was 
> corrupt/incompatible and had to be rebuilt.  I did a variety of things 
> before I got things to work, most notably deleting all extension 
> directories, the extensions.rdf file, the chrome.rdf file, all the 
> "dat" files in the main directory and all the "db" files in the main 
> directory (make backups first and try replacing them one-by-one so you 
> can get most of your profile back).  All of this stuff is stored in 
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/<psuedo-random name>/.  If you don't care about 
> your profile just run firefox with the -ProfileManager option and make 
> a new one, that should accomplish the same thing.
>
>> I just installed FC3T2 yesterday,
> did a full up2date, and have run
>
>> into a minor problem: When I launch Firefox (which is now version
>
>> 1.0PR), I get the following message: "Failed to save the
> preferences
>
>> file. Any preference changes will be lost at the end of the
> session."
>
>> And, sure 'nuf, they are lost. I've tried running Firefox as root,
>
>> and that saves preferences fine. I run into this problem only when
>
>> running as a normal user. Any ideas? 


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