this is a known problem and had been fixed with 2.0.0.2 by mozilla.


2007/3/24, Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>:
> On Sat, Mar 24 2007 - 12:36, Loic Hoguin wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:04:35 +0100, Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net> wrote:
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >It seems that starting www/firefox2 for the first time (that is without
> > >an already existing ~/.mozilla directory) generates a profile directory
> > >where prefs.js is read-only. I've never seen that before, so it may be
> > >due to this version of firefox.
> > >
> > >I'm running firefox-2.0.0.2 with xorg-6.9.0nb3, from pkgsrc-HEAD.
> > >
> > >The issue is that settings just never get saved, there is no warning (or
> > >at least I didn't find any), and each time firefox is close and started
> > >back, you get the initial settings.
> > >
> > >I did a "chmod 644 ~/.mozilla/firefox/$MY_PROFILE_NAME/prefs.js" and
> > >everything is all right now.
> >
> > I just got the same issue with firefox2-gtk1 under macppc.
> >
>
> On my installation, /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/defaults/profile/prefs.js est
> set 0444. I expect firefox to be copying this file at first start
> without using the environment umask value...
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