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Re: non function firefox



On Tuesday 17 March 2020 08:47:35 Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 06:02:19AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > ene@coyote:~$ firefox -p
> >
> > (/usr/lib/firefox-esr/firefox-esr:31477): dconf-WARNING **: Unable
> > to open /opt/trinity/share/dconf/profile/user: Permission denied
>
> What Did You Do....
>
> Clearly you've done *something* to cause Firefox to look in abnormal
> places for things.  Maybe your best bet at this point would be to
> create a whole new Linux user account, and run Firefox in that.
>
> Do not install any add-ons, do not make any changes to the locations
> of data, do not symlink things into /opt/trinity/, etc.
>
> If that works, then you've confirmed that it's something in your
> main user account that's causing Firefox to go nuts, rather than some
> kind of bug in Firefox or one of its dependencies.
>
> If that doesn't work... then... what the hell is /opt/trinity, and why
> (and how) did you tell Firefox to look there?  Figure out what you
> did, and undo it.

I've been running trinity desktop for several years. Its stable and 
generally Just Works except for FF. Trinity keeps some stuff in /opt
Including it bin dir

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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