Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
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Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
Hello,
I have a little problem, my palemoon browser always opens firstrun page every time I open the browser. It never saved my preferences.
And the home page is always back to default, even tho I have changed it hundreds time.
At first, I thought it's a permission issue, so I changed the permission of folder palemoon in home/myuser/.moonchild productions/. But it didnt help me, palemoon still wont save changes I made in preference.
Can anyone help me, please..
thanks in advance
I have a little problem, my palemoon browser always opens firstrun page every time I open the browser. It never saved my preferences.
And the home page is always back to default, even tho I have changed it hundreds time.
At first, I thought it's a permission issue, so I changed the permission of folder palemoon in home/myuser/.moonchild productions/. But it didnt help me, palemoon still wont save changes I made in preference.
Can anyone help me, please..
thanks in advance
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Re: Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
Hello, lilgart.
Now we could only guess what you did.
You might like to proceed like this:
Karl
You should have posted the exact commandline, which you had used in order to change permissions.
Now we could only guess what you did.
You might like to proceed like this:
- Close Pale Moon.
- Open a terminal window.
- Execute the commandline precisely as it has been typed here, with one exception: replace myuser by your real login name.
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sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser
- Launch Pale Moon again. - Hopefully it will save your preferences from now on and hopefully the firstrun page will be displayed only once and no longer on later Pale Moon startups.
Karl
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Re: Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
What is the timestamp of prefs.js?
Do you have multiple prefs.js-## (or similar) in your Profile Folder?
Are other files in your Profile Folder dated current?
Do you have multiple prefs.js-## (or similar) in your Profile Folder?
Are other files in your Profile Folder dated current?
Re: Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
I changed it from file manager (mine is pcmanfm) run in super user mode.
It works, thank you.karlchen wrote: ↑2019-05-03, 16:49
- Execute the commandline
precisely as it has been typed here, with one exception: replace myuser by your real login name.Code: Select all
sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser
- Launch Pale Moon again. - Hopefully it will save your preferences from now on and hopefully the firstrun page will be displayed only once and no longer on later Pale Moon startups.
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Re: Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
Hello, lilgart.
Background:
Sometimes running a graphical application with root privileges via sudo instead of gksudo or pkexec yields the unwanted side-effect that files / directories in your home directory are no longer owned by you, but by user root. As a consequence, you are no longer permitted to write to your own files.
Recursively re-instating yourself as the owner of everything inside your home directory usually fixes such problems.
Cheers,
Karl
Good to learn that your problem has been solved.lilgart wrote: ↑2019-05-04, 05:36[...][...]Code: Select all
sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser
It works, thank you.
Background:
Sometimes running a graphical application with root privileges via sudo instead of gksudo or pkexec yields the unwanted side-effect that files / directories in your home directory are no longer owned by you, but by user root. As a consequence, you are no longer permitted to write to your own files.
Recursively re-instating yourself as the owner of everything inside your home directory usually fixes such problems.
Cheers,
Karl
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Re: Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
Never use "sudo". It's dangerous. Unless you own a badge which says qualified-to-use-sudo!
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Re: Palemoon always opens firstrun page.
Except in this case it's required to restore all permissions. not being superuser won't fix this problem ;P
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