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. -- Wireshark wipes firefox settings & bookmarks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/156990 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
