Firefox installation problem: loading the extensions datasource

[Bill Freeman]

Paul Dussault writes:
 > I have just installed the Firefox browser on to my Fedora Core 2
 > release and can only run the program as root. I get the message:
 > "loading the extensions datasource" in the terminal window I
 > execute the program from if I am not the root user. I installed
 > Firefox as root into the /usr/local/bin directory. I opened up the
 > permissions to 774 to see if that would help, but no go. Rather
 > than continue and really screw things up, I thought I would ask the
 > question here.

	Just for reference, I'm using Firefox with FC2, and had no
such problem.  Did you install from and RPM (as I did), or some other
way?

							Bill