On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 12:33:46PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 11:37:00AM -0500, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Again I am not trying to start a rant I just want to know. > > The only reason it matters for the purposes of this list is: the upstream > project has decided to make Firefox/Thunderbird the main focus and no longer > update the Mozilla suite. > > But I also have to comment on this one: > > > 2. I would like my downloaded files to go in my home directory. So as > > root I want them to go into /root. That may be unreasonable to some > > people but it can't be done in firefox. The Desktop folder is the last > > place I want to put them. > > DON'T run either Firefox or Mozilla as root! You're playing russian roulette > with security problems here. Big, complicated GUI programs should stay in > userspace. > > (That said, you can easily change the default file save location with the > option under "Downloads".) Ok, I agree downloading as root has dangers. I normally don't do it. But the fact is no matter who you run it as you can not have the downloads go into your home directory, in my experience. But I am willing to learn. If someone can tell me how to do it I would be grateful. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx