Firefox help - Opened firefox using sudo

[saratchandra]

Fixed it myself. What happened is, when I viewed firefox as root, it changed the owner of the profile.js file to root and user permissions to none. I changed the permissions back and everything is working fine

[cobra741]

nice one buddy!! well done

i certainly wouldn't have thought of that... still have so much to learn about ubuntu

grats!

[Primefalcon]

ahh so it would of reset each time, will have to remember that myself

[saratchandra]

True. Also, I had to change the StartWithLastProfile variable in profiles.ini file to 0 so that it will not open with the root profile.

[The Cog]

A quick fix would probably have been:
sudo chown saratchandra:saratchandra ~/.mozilla
(or whatever your username is).

[jakechance]

I did the same thing trying to remove an extension and couldn't understand what went wrong. This really helped me out. I only modified the command slightly

sudo chown -R username:usergroup ~/.mozilla/

Note: Obviously replace username and usergroup with whatever yours may be.

That hits everything in the directory in one go. Thanks!

[b0b138]

Good deal... I was going to say delete your firefox profile (home/user/.mozilla/firefox) Delete both the folder whatever.default and profiles.ini. This would cause a new profile to be created. Or as cog said, resetting the permissions.