[21807] in Athena Bugs
Still having problems with mozilla
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Fri Apr 11 14:19:04 2003
Message-Id: <200304111819.OAA25999@cutter-john.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:19:01 -0400
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
So I just rm'd my old .mozilla directories, then moved my .netscape
aside so that mozilla wouldn't try to convert my preferences. Then
I started mozilla. It took me to web.mit.edu's top level--OK, I'll
just go into the preferences and change the home page, right? Wrong.
I pull up the preferences browser, click in the "Home Page Location"
box and start typing--and absolutely nothing happens. If I double-
click, it highlights the contents, but even hitting backspace or
delete fails to do anything at all. Oddly enough, I can *paste*
information into this box, just can't use my keyboard.
I then gave up and went to access websis. I was able to enter
information into the web *form*, but I was unable to type anything
into the "master password" fields at all, so my certificate would
*have* to be stored in the clear on the disk.
As a final note:
[cutter-john]-[~]-> fs la .mozilla
Access list for .mozilla is
Normal rights:
system:expunge ld
system:anyuser rl
klmitch rlidwka
Which means that the mozilla start script isn't munging the ACL for
the .mozilla directory at all. This could be worked around, and
won't actually affect most people much since the default permissions
on user home directories are only "system:anyuser l", but I admit
I'm disturbed by this...
I'm at a loss to explain my problems with entering text into mozilla
dialog boxes. The only thing I can possibly think of is that
mozilla is somehow interacting poorly with vtwm.gamma, which is my
window manager.
--
Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
