Palemoon always opens firstrun page.

[lilgart]

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

[karlchen]

Hello, lilgart.

so I changed the permission of folder palemoon in home/myuser/.moonchild productions/.

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

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  sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser

  precisely as it has been typed here, with one exception: replace myuser by your real login name.
• 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.

Regards,
Karl

[therube]

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?

[lilgart]

You should have posted the exact commandline, which you had used in order to change permissions.

I changed it from file manager (mine is pcmanfm) run in super user mode.

• Execute the commandline

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  sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser

  precisely as it has been typed here, with one exception: replace myuser by your real login name.
• 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.

It works, thank you.

[lilgart]

Do you have multiple prefs.js-## (or similar) in your Profile Folder?

I couldnt even find prefs.js, but never mind it fixed.
Thank you.

[karlchen]

Hello, lilgart.

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sudo chown -R myuser:myuser /home/myuser

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It works, thank you.

Good to learn that your problem has been solved.

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

[adesh]

Never use "sudo". It's dangerous. Unless you own a badge which says qualified-to-use-sudo!

[karlchen]

Never use "sudo". It's dangerous.

A rule which Linux home users, who usually are their own system administrators, will hardly be able to stick to.
There are cases when you have to get out the screwdriver and open the front hood in order to fix your engine.

[Moonchild]

Never use "sudo". It's dangerous. Unless you own a badge which says qualified-to-use-sudo!

Except in this case it's required to restore all permissions. not being superuser won't fix this problem ;P