[CLUE-Tech] Very strange Mozilla Problem

[Adam Bultman]

I'd strongly encourage you not to use mozilla or the like as root. It's a 
pretty big security problem if you consider what web pages can do on your 
local host.  


Other than that, get the most recent version, and see if there aren't 
other problems (X server issues?) that are standing in your way.



-- 
adamb at glaven.org
[ www.glaven.org ]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 rknech at pcisys.net wrote:

> I was having similar problems with Mozillla, but other problems as well dealing
> with java/xml stuff.  I upgraded to Version 1.2.1 and all the problems went away
> for me.  I then upgraded to the 1.3 alpha. OOPS! I started having mozilla lock
> up and hang testing web based java & xml stuff I was developing.  I went back to
> 1.2.1 and it worked fine.  I would upgrade to 1.2.1 and stay with that release
> for now. It is pretty stable.  Also go out to Suns website and download the
> latest JRE1.3 and install it.  That is what nutscrape was attempting to install
> and it puked on you.  I think once you install the JRE you should be ok.  You
> cold try that first and see if it clears up your current mozilla problem.  But I
> would recomend going to V1.2.1 on mozilla still.
> 
> 
> > When I start Mozilla in user it works fine. When I 
> > start Mozilla in root it crashes. It starts up in 
> > root but when Mozilla tries to access a web page 
> > it starts to retrieve info from the site and then 
> > shuts down completely.
> > 
> > I'm Using:
> > Mozilla 1.0.1
> > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.0.1) 
> > Gecko/20021003
> > 
> > Before this problem occurred while logged in as a 
> > user I tried to download and install a plugin from 
> > Netscape named application/x-java-vm. The filename 
> > Netscape downloaded was jre131_02.xpi. When the 
> > file had downloaded it started to install but an 
> > error code came up ACCESS DENIED.
> > 
> > Any help would be Greatly Appreciated.
> > 
> > vbsouthern at access4less.net
> > 
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