[GLLUG] Firefox Bug

[Richard Houser]

It's probably something as simple as reading the wrong variable.  Just
on a hunch, try setting your temp environment variables to $HOME/tmp
immediately before you run the browser.  Your reset period may be when
the system gets restarted.  For example, my /tmp is a ramdisk.

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's a problem discovered with the latest Firefox, 10.0.something. Have
> any of you been having problems with HTML5 video on multi-user PCs?
> --
>
>                               Chick
>
> ===================================================
> I have found the problem, prompted by my reference to single user
> windows systems. If you haven't been put off using firefox before, then
> this might finally nail it. What appallingly bad design.
>
> There is a /tmp/mozilla-media-cache directory which firefox uses for
> storing its online streaming. It is owned by the first user to start up
> firefox (or presumably some other mozilla product).  firefox only
> allows that first user to access the directory.  It appears that
> sometimes this gets reset (it appears to be maybe every week or so) so
> that another user can get to it, to the exclusion of the earlier user
> for the remainder of the week/month or whatever it is.
>
> I am completely amazed at the crass, mind boggling, awefulness of this.
>
> Chris
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