I am sorry about the delayed response.

Yes, when I checkout the 20 Sep 2005 version of firefox-1.0.6nb3, the 
problem I originally reported is gone.

Mark

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 jlam@netbsd.org wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:09:08 +0000 (UTC)
> From: jlam@netbsd.org
> To: taya@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
>     jlam@netbsd.org, mwicks@kettering.edu
> Subject: Re: pkg/29633
> 
> Synopsis: firefox 1.01 - "make install" writes outside pkg tree
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> State-Changed-By: jlam@netbsd.org
> State-Changed-When: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 05:09:07 +0000
> State-Changed-Why:
> I believe that this is fixed on pkgsrc HEAD with firefox-1.0.6nb3?
> The Mozilla browser packages have been modified to run the programs
> to perform the registration with HOME set to a special temporary
> directory that is created solely for the purpose of doing the
> registration.  Can you please verify if this is the case?  Thanks!