Firefox unable to create folders

[akwatve]

Hi,

I am facing a weird problem. When I try to create a folder from firefox (while downloading stuff), it says "unable to create folder. permission denied." But when I create it using terminal (i.e. 'mkdir foo') it works.

Firefox is running as the same user as the terminal, so shouldn't the two programs have the same permissions ?

I am not sure why is firefox making my OS unhappy :-(

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[akwatve]

UPDATE :

I changed folder permissions to 777 but still no use

[lovinglinux]

If you are trying to create a folder on a separate hard drive, it might be the AppArmor profile limiting permissions. See AppArmor tutorial. Put Firefox in complain mode and try again.

[akwatve]

Thanks for the tip. This definitely looks like an apparmor issue.
When I shutdown apparmor daemon, I was able to create the folders.
I haven't been able to configure apparmor to allow my download folder.

[akwatve]

Thanks lovinglinux
Finally reconfigured apparmor to allow access to certain folders.
It's a pretty neat application.

Just for documentation purpose :

I inserted following line in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox, in the section where it configures user's personal files:

/foo/bar/MyDownloads/** rw

[lovinglinux]

Thanks lovinglinux
Finally reconfigured apparmor to allow access to certain folders.
It's a pretty neat application.

Just for documentation purpose :

I inserted following line in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.firefox, in the section where it configures user's personal files:

/foo/bar/MyDownloads/** rw

You are welcome.