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Bug 163377 - Starts firefox as root
Starts firefox as root
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: firestarter
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Tomas Junnonen
Tomas Junnonen
gnome[unmaintained]
: 304578 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 338159
 
 
Reported: 2005-01-08 22:33 UTC by Diego Ongaro
Modified: 2011-12-06 06:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Diego Ongaro 2005-01-08 22:33:28 UTC 
On Ubuntu (Hoary), open firestarter through the menu and go to Help>Firestarter
Homepage. It opens firefox as root:

root     /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin -a firefox -contentLocale US
-UILocale en-US http://www.fs-security.com

This tends to screw up firefox's settings and running a web browser as root is
just not a good thing to do (even if you do have a firewall enabled :P)
Comment 1 Pablo Pérez Benítez 2005-02-28 03:27:18 UTC 
Have the same issue with Firestarter 1.0.3 in my Debian Sid, using Gnome 2.8.1.
Help button opens Firefox as root.
Comment 2 sam tygier 2006-04-12 21:26:03 UTC 
*** Bug 304578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 sam tygier 2006-08-27 21:22:40 UTC 
this has been reported fixed in ubuntu edgy
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/firestarter/+bug/569
Comment 4 Akhil Laddha 2011-12-06 06:16:57 UTC 
firestarter development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. I contacted Tomas Junnonen (majix@iki.fi) because he is listed as Developer on project page but didn't get any response. I found firestarter on fedora wiki [1] under deprecated packages so i am closing all the bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development.

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Deprecated_packages