On Sun, Apr 6, 2008, Ryan Lothian wrote:
> Nevermind - the original bug seems fixed (though it was definitely a bug
>  when I filed the report) and the hidden bookmarks when I retried in 7.10
>  is just because it was running as root.

I assume that when run as root, Wireshark starts Firefox as root as
well. I would say that's a bug -- it should spawn Firefox under your
normal user when you run Wireshark from the menu via gksudo or
similar. Not sure whether this is easy to implement.

Perhaps Wireshark should always run the GUI with ordinary user
privileges. It is the network capture back-end that should run as
root, and it should nevertheless drop unnecessary root capabilities as
soon as possible. But this is all another story, not directly related
to this bug.

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Wireshark wipes firefox settings & bookmarks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156990
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