Re: mozilla calendar @ FC3

From: Herbert Pophal (pophal_at_zrz.TU-Berlin.DE)
Date: 09/23/05 

Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:08:34 +0200

Thomas Rongitsch wrote:
>
> Herbert Pophal wrote:
> > Thomas Rongitsch wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> I reinstalled it and it worked fine for me yesterday! Are your
> >> browser's security settings a bit tight?
> >
> >
> > What do you mean in particular?
>
> eg.: Preferences -> Software Installation -> Enable software installation

Yes I did.

>
> >
> >> Does 'save as' work?
> >
> >
> > That will of course depend on where I save to and who I am, according to
> > file and dir permissions.
>
> This was meant only as a test. To me it was not clear if the file was
> accessable. Download the xpi-file (eg. into your home-dir) and open it
> with mozilla/firefox.

Well I will give this a last try on Monday or Tuesday at work. But
remember: there was that annoying popup showing me 'downlaod error'.

>
> ...
> >>
> >
> > Did you really install as user, not as root? If I really cuold find it,
> > I could try to install the aforementioned Suse for Fedora stuff and move
> > it to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.10 or create some symlinks.
> >
>
> You're maybe right: that should not be. All files in /usr/lib/... are
> owned by root.

Yes, and why do you write that the installation works without root
permission, e.g. as user?

Herbert

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