COPIED FROM MY EARLIER TEXT: "I have Firefox 38 up and useable daily, with bookmarks, and full functionality. EXCEPT....... Firefox is no longer available to me from the Unit icon, or from Bluefish HTML Editor, as "preview"

Firefox 38 is the only firefox I have, the copy up now is I believe the Ubuntu loaded full version, I have changed to ubuntu loaded and deleted, then installed mozilla loaded and deleted so many times now I do not know..... the current version works perfectly..... I just cannot get to it or see it from Bluefish HTML editor as preview.....

what I said was, " I do not understand the mumbo-jumbo of MSDOS or the Terminal codes" not that I thought terminal was in MSDOS.....

I cannot open or visit or use Firefox38 as a Priviledged user..... only as a visitor-user , hence gksudo again....sudo does not work ! only gksudo works !

I cannot open or visit or use Firefox38 as a Priviledged user

As said before, it is a bad idea to run Firefox as root.

only gksudo works !

You contradict yourself. With whatever sudo version you use, this would run Firefox as root.

but, that is all I can do...... sudo wil not run firefox....only gk sudo will.....

if I do not use the gk sudo method, please please PLEASE tell me "how" do I open, see, and use Firefox 38 !!!??? are you saying there is a way?

See:

• http://askubuntu.com/questions/163884/difference-between-gksudo-and-sudo
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/11760/what-is-the-difference-between-gksudo-nautilus-and-sudo-nautilus

https://www.google.com/search?q=gksudo

I am not sure what point you are trying to make, listing all the files not owned by me in my home directory, found by using the this command in a terminal: find $HOME -not -user $USER -exec ls -lad {} \;

 tells me what we already know...... 

whazammo@earthport1:~$ find $HOME -not -user $USER -exec ls -lad {} \; drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Conflictname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Installtid -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Basenames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Group -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Name -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Providename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Packages -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 81919 Jun 5 09:40 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/__db.002 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Sha1header -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 98303 Jun 5 09:40 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/__db.003 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Requirename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/.dbenv.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Dirnames -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Triggername -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Obsoletename -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262143 Jun 5 09:40 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/__db.001 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb/Sigmd5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9177 Jun 5 18:00 /home/whazammo/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 29 12:51 /home/whazammo/.rpmdb

I wouldn't bet that this is correct, but I'm not using Ubuntu. So I don't know. It certainly won't affect Firefox.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9177 Jun 5 18:00 /home/whazammo/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

This looks like your launcher and it certainly shouldn't be owned by root. It is readable for everyone though, so it wouldn't prevent Firefox from starting. So I guess it's something in that file causing problems. It's a text file, so you can open it with a text editor.

I don't think you ever stated what the actual problem is or what happens when you attempt to start Firefox via the launcher.

back in my very first post in this second thread here at Mozilla..... (the entire first thread has disappeared). and, there are around 25 missing posts in this thread (the moderators must be removing them),

there is no continuity, so, I am being asked the same questions over and over . . . like, "I don't think you ever stated what the actual problem is or what happens when you attempt to start Firefox via the launcher."

I have stated  twice earlier that:

"for 6 or so months now Firefox has  quit launching from the unity firefox icon . . . it does the loading ball cycle and--- then nothing, it only will load from terminal as gksudo firefox, or as a guest visitor. (it will NOT load as sudo firefox, and there is no access to the firefox profile manage via -P.  

over a thousand hours of diagnosis and trying Literally hundreds of terminal codes by "experts" have all failed... it appears I am not recognized as administrator/owner by either Ubuntu or firefox..... and it cannot be accessed as the preview browser from bluefish HTML Editor (same problem) ubuntu is the only OS, and firefox38 the only Browser."

Firefox 38 is the only firefox I have, the copy up now is I believe the Ubuntu loaded full version

If you can't tell for sure we can stop here.

If I were you I'd start looking at the /home/whazammo/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop file, but I guess I did mention that before.

Yes,,we are rerunning the same tests/questions /ideas over and over again.... due to all o9f the earlier parts oif the thread being taken down.

the odd part in the story is the "other sister" computer (unaffected un-infected) by the change.... when I open terminal and simply type in "firefox" , firefox jumps into the screen instantly ! and I have this message in the terminal:

(process:3302): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed 1434289730582 addons.xpi WARN Exception running bootstrap method shutdown on webapps-team@lists.launchpad.net: ReferenceError: sss is not defined (resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> file:///usr/share/mozilla/extensions/%7Bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D/webapps-team@lists.launchpad.net/bootstrap.js:72:4) JS Stack trace: shutdown@resource://gre/modules/addons/XPIProvider.jsm -> file:///usr/share/mozilla/extensions/%7Bec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384%7D/webapps-team@bootstrap.js:72:5 < XPI_callBootstrapMethod@XPIProvider.jsm:4305:9 < shutdownObserver@XPIProvider.jsm:1991:13

Hi whazammo, I sympathise with your problems, but unfortunately you just see to be digging yourself deeper into a hole.

We are not a Ubuntu support forum and probably will not solve your Ubuntu issues.

It strikes me you need Firefox for work and have spent hundreds of hours on this. Can't you just uninstall and reinstall Ubunto 14.04 on one of your machines. If necessary just buy a new HDD and plug that into the computer. Ubunto will install on to an internal or external HDD on any reasonably modern machine (It will also run off memory sticks but thats not the best of methods )

whazammo said

Yes,,we are rerunning the same tests/questions /ideas over and over again.... due to all o9f the earlier parts oif the thread being taken down.

No one is taking down your posts. I am sure everyone replying here; other than you; has no problem seeing and scrolling through your posts. Possibly you are posting on other Fora, maybe Mozillazine and thinking this is the same. It is not. Or maybe you posted under a different name.

Your thread. This one is

• 14.04 unity does not load firefox-only gksudo or guest "will" /questions/1065739

29 replies  2 have this problem  12 views  last reply by whazammo 2 days ago

I should be putting Ubunto & Debian on a rebuilt machine this weekend I never seem to have any issues. The laptop I am on at the moment is on its last legs and unreliable but it includes Ubuntu 14.04 With this I can start the Distros Canonical Firefox 38 with Firefox -P from the CLI

:~$  firefox -P
(process:6714): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

Is one of your problems that you are using the guest account when signing into Ubuntu. If you are you will not get anything fixed or reinstalled properly. But on a new out of the box type install even the guest account runs Firefox from a launcher.

Whatever your split screen (? vmware ) screenshot from #answer-737778 I can even see the Firefox launcher icons, not only that they appear to have open Firefox Windows. So why do you need to use the CLI

A less drastic solution than reinstalling the Ubuntu OS just install a second copy of Mozilla's Firefox See Install Firefox on Linux

Well, this is the same thing the ubuntu forum said after their 4 months of expert attempts, "not our problem, it is a mozilla problem . . . do not waste our time, go to the source".

It is important to note that I am not digging myself deeper into a hole---nothing has changed here (the one/same problem) is still present today that was here day one (on one machine only) after the 14.04 auto-upgrade ... 14.04 unity firefox icon does not/will not load firefox, -only gksudo or guest "will".

These "are" new machines, single booted OS and simple, which are used for our websites, to have an unsolveable problem on one machine "only" is somehow ridiculous, even unfathomable. I sure hope the support is better at Mac and Safari.