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kasmtech
Firefox will not open in Kali Linux while persistent profile is enabled
To whom it may concern,
Firefox will not open, when clicking on icon in Kali Linux, when persistent profile is enabled; however, will open when persistent profile is disabled.
The error shown below presents itself when running the command in the terminal:
# firefox -P
Error:
# Running Firefox as root in a regular user's session is not supported. ($HOME is /home/kasm-user which is owned by uid 1000.)
Workaround
Running the following commands allow Firefox to open:
# su (access root)
# cd
# firefox -P
A window appears, and you have to build a profile. Although, to have a corporate size number of people do this method every time is a nuisance. Clicking the icon is obviously more user friendly and faster.
Your reply is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
In investigating your issue I've found that on the 1.11.0 pre-release, Kali with persistent profiles enabled and running as root will not start after the initial session which creates the persistent profile. We are investigating...
@mmcclaskey
Thank you for the quick response. We'll continue to use the workaround until the issue is corrected.
