Firefox Nightly [ SOLVED }

[Gordon]

Hi All.
I am having trouble with nightly, I tell it to download and install the updat but all it seems to do is try and connect to the server. another thing is I can't set the background colour, at the moment it is bright white and I can't see all the boxes / icons or the google logo. Any ideas as to why please ? 

[Gordon]

Hi All

Managed to get it to work in the end     , It turns out that I have to run it as root and I have even got it to run from fluxbox which is a miracle for me    . All I have to contend with now is the password all the time which isn't too bad

[PackRat]

You have to run firefox as root? Did you download and install it in /root?

I usually download the latest release from my user account, use sudo to get it installed in /opt (/opt/firefox after extracting), then create a symlink in /usr/local/bin - or /usr/bin if you prefer. No permissions issues then.

[jeffreyC]

Isn't that highly dangerous running a browser as root ?

I have read of running Firefox as root to upgrade it then immediately closing it, before opening it as a regular user.

[PackRat]

Yes, it is a security risk.

[Gordon]

Hi PackRat,

I downloaded it as a tar.bz file from Mozilla and unpacked it and installed into a folder named browser. I created a link to the folder and it does run but is virtually unusable, you can't see the little boxes or what they contain and the google logo doesn't appear at all.  I either read or was told that. also it won't update unless you run it as root.

[PackRat]

That makes sense; I'm set up pretty much the same way but unpack firefox into /opt not /browser.

The rest sounds like a theme issue. You can try some different theme/icon pairings to see if you get something legible.