Dev.igner

I just wanted to share a little gem of knowledge with anyone who runs into the same issue I did with running Firefox 3.0.3 on Ubuntu 8.10. On a pretty much fresh install of Ubuntu, I opened up Firefox and noticed that my Back, Forward and Stop buttons along with my History were all disabled. I looked around Google for an answer and found it a little tricky to find a fix. On the Firefox forum, they were dismissing the ticket as no reproducible and blamed it on broken plugins. But that is not the case. If you have this problem, you need to run Firefox as root once in order to get it working. Once you run it as root once, it will work fine normally after that. If you don’t know what it means to run as root, open up a terminal and type this in:

sudo firefox3.0

It will then ask you to type in your password. Do so and Firefox will open and all of your buttons should be working now. Hope this helps anywho who was as confused as I was when this happened!