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Bug in Firefox on Ubuntu

January 12th, 2007 at 9:26 pm » Comments (0)

Bug in Firefox on Ubuntu
[Bug #14391:
Firefox cannot save links with left-clicking on links.]
I thought this was a flaw in Ubuntu, or something to do with permissions, but it’s a bug in Firefox on Ubuntu.
Firefox cannot save links with left-clicking on links
UPDATE: I worked around this bug by dragging and dropping the file I [...]



Problems with Firefox in Ubuntu Edgy Eft

January 6th, 2007 at 8:58 pm » Comments (0)

Still feeling my way around, I clicked on a Firefox system file (firefoxrc), after which I could not launch Firefox. Full error message as follows:
Could not launch application failed to execute child process “/etc/firefox/firefoxrc” (permission denied)
I found this on the Ubuntu forum
to rectify permission problem:
chmod o+x /etc
or if that [...]



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