firefox extensions silently fail to update

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Kurt Wall wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 12:38:22PM -0800, Net Llama! took 19 lines to write:
> > I'm running firefox-1.5.0.1 (from the official tarball).  On one system,
> > for one user, whenever I update the extensions, firefox acts like its
> > updating them to a newer version, yet after restarting firefox, I'm
> > running the older versions all over again.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas, or seen this behavior before?
>
> I saw it here. Two ideas: Did you follow the instructions and run firefox
> as root before you ran it as a mortal user?  Does the one user have odd
> permissions in the requisite config directories?

Yes, I ran firefox as root first.  I'm not sure which "requisite config
directories" you're referring to, however everything in ~/.mozilla/firefox
is owned by this user.

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