[K12OSN] Can't launch Firefox

[Bill Bardon]

On Friday, Oct 29 Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> Installed Firefox to
> 
> /usr/local/firefox-installer/
> 
> when clients try to launch the firefox binary from a terminal they get
> 
> *** LOADING THE EXTENSIONS DATASOURCE
> *** LOADING THE EXTENSIONS DATASOURCE
> 
> this message keeps being displayed in an infinite loop.
> 
> Does someone know how to solve this?

Did you perform the very first run of Firefox as root on the server?
Firefox on Linux requires this to properly initialize some files.  

I think you could still login as root, run Firefox, and all would be
well after that.  If not, uninstall and reinstall, then run as root the
first time.


-- 
Bill Bardon