Personalisations not persisting

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Hi guys!

At first I though this behavior was limited to Firefox, but after this thread I’m thinking it’s a bit (perhaps a lot) more widespread.

I think the behavior, for me at least, started after the loast I might be wrong, but that’s what I think.

Any customisation I make in Firefox, page zoom etc., will not persist after Firefox restarts, making me suspect it’s not being saved. And after the thread I mentioned above, it would seem it’s not limited to Firefox, leading me to suspect the ~./config folder’s (or /home directory, ~/.* directory) permissions are out of whack. My directories’ permissioons are below:

`stat ~/.mozilla' 
File: /home/mirdarthos/.mozilla
Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 10302h/66306d   Inode: 5541378     Links: 7
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)   Gid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)
Access: 2020-09-14 14:11:44.907076903 +0200
Modify: 2020-11-13 13:09:47.566418928 +0200
Change: 2020-11-13 13:09:47.566418928 +0200
Birth: 2020-09-14 14:11:44.907076903 +0200
stat ~/.config 
File: /home/mirdarthos/.config
Size: 12288           Blocks: 24         IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 10302h/66306d   Inode: 5242889     Links: 124
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)   Gid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)
Access: 2020-09-14 13:02:35.581471217 +0200
Modify: 2021-05-12 08:40:24.123455104 +0200
Change: 2021-05-12 08:40:24.123455104 +0200
Birth: 2020-09-14 13:02:35.491471217 +0200
stat ~/ 
File: /home/mirdarthos/
Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 10302h/66306d   Inode: 5242882     Links: 63
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)   Gid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)
Access: 2020-09-14 13:02:35.581471217 +0200
Modify: 2021-05-12 09:09:48.276468565 +0200
Change: 2021-05-12 09:09:48.276468565 +0200
Birth: 2020-09-14 13:02:35.491471217 +0200

And just for giggles, here is my inxi -Faaazy --no-host for you:

inxi -Faaazy --no-host 
$ inxi -Faaazy --no-host

System:
Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0  
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64  
root=UUID=9a26c8d0-43f4-44ad-a7d3-861d6f6cdbfa rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=1b3f894f-5481-4241-ace5-c129a0cdb412
udev.log_priority=3
Console: tty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux  
base: Arch Linux  
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z370 HD3 v: N/A serial: N/A  
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z370 HD3-CF v: x.x serial: N/A  
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F5 date: 10/30/2017  
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8700 socket: LGA1151 (U3E1) note: check  
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6  
model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: DE cache: L1: 384 KiB  
L2: 12 MiB L3: 12 MiB  
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx  
bogomips: 76799  
Speed: 4299 MHz min/max: 800/4600 MHz base/boost: 4300/8300 volts: 1.1 V  
ext-clock: 100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4299 2: 4299 3: 4301 4: 4301  
5: 4299 6: 4299 7: 4300 8: 4299 9: 4295 10: 4300 11: 4300 12: 4301  
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled  
Type: l1tf  
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable  
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable  
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI  
Type: spec_store_bypass  
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp  
Type: spectre_v1  
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization  
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,  
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode  
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable  
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia  
v: 460.73.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0  
chip-ID: 10de:1401 class-ID: 0300  
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia  
display-ID: :0 screens: 1  
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1080 s-dpi: 97 s-size: 1341x283mm (52.8x11.1")  
s-diag: 1371mm (54")  
Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 97 size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.2")  
diag: 730mm (28.8")  
Monitor-2: DVI-D-0 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 97  
size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.2") diag: 730mm (28.8")  
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01  
direct render: Yes  
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte  
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0  
class-ID: 0403  
Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte  
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fba  
class-ID: 0403  
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes  
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.18 running: no  
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes  
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no  
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel  
port: f000 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200  
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>  
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 8.41 TiB used: 2.76 TiB (32.8%)  
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 250GB  
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3B7QCXE7 temp: 25.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 120d 4h cycles: 1,406
read-units: 36,278,673 [18.5 TB] written-units: 23,168,811 [11.8 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST5000VX0011-1T317X
family: Surveillance size: 4.55 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: VN02 temp: 28 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 262d 8h cycles: 787
read: 52.69 TiB written: 12.78 TiB Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count
value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168
family: Desktop HDD.15 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5900 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: CC54 temp: 24 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 2y 173d 22h cycles: 1719
read: 55.84 TiB written: 36.78 TiB Old-Age: UDMA CRC errors: 13567
alert: Bad cable/connection? Pre-Fail: end-to-end: 99 threshold: 99
alert: FAILING_NOW attribute: Spin_Retry_Count value: 100 worst: 100
threshold: 97
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 224.58 GiB size: 220.06 GiB (97.99%)
used: 96.01 GiB (43.6%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 500 MiB size: 499 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 75 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 26 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 51%
Info:
Processes: 331 Uptime: 42m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.59 GiB
used: 4.54 GiB (29.1%) Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1783 apt: 0 pacman: 1757 lib: 464
flatpak: 26 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04 inxi -Faaazy --no-host
System:
Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0  
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64  
root=UUID=9a26c8d0-43f4-44ad-a7d3-861d6f6cdbfa rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=1b3f894f-5481-4241-ace5-c129a0cdb412
udev.log_priority=3
Console: tty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux  
base: Arch Linux  
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z370 HD3 v: N/A serial: N/A  
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z370 HD3-CF v: x.x serial: N/A  
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F5 date: 10/30/2017  
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8700 socket: LGA1151 (U3E1) note: check  
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6  
model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: DE cache: L1: 384 KiB  
L2: 12 MiB L3: 12 MiB  
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx  
bogomips: 76799  
Speed: 4299 MHz min/max: 800/4600 MHz base/boost: 4300/8300 volts: 1.1 V  
ext-clock: 100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4299 2: 4299 3: 4301 4: 4301  
5: 4299 6: 4299 7: 4300 8: 4299 9: 4295 10: 4300 11: 4300 12: 4301  
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled  
Type: l1tf  
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable  
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable  
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI  
Type: spec_store_bypass  
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp  
Type: spectre_v1  
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization  
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,  
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode  
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable  
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia  
v: 460.73.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0  
chip-ID: 10de:1401 class-ID: 0300  
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia  
display-ID: :0 screens: 1  
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1080 s-dpi: 97 s-size: 1341x283mm (52.8x11.1")  
s-diag: 1371mm (54")  
Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 97 size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.2")  
diag: 730mm (28.8")  
Monitor-2: DVI-D-0 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 97  
size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.2") diag: 730mm (28.8")  
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01  
direct render: Yes  
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte  
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0  
class-ID: 0403  
Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte  
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fba  
class-ID: 0403  
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes  
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.18 running: no  
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes  
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no  
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel  
port: f000 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200  
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>  
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 8.41 TiB used: 2.76 TiB (32.8%)  
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 250GB  
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3B7QCXE7 temp: 25.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 120d 4h cycles: 1,406
read-units: 36,278,673 [18.5 TB] written-units: 23,168,811 [11.8 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST5000VX0011-1T317X
family: Surveillance size: 4.55 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: VN02 temp: 28 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 262d 8h cycles: 787
read: 52.69 TiB written: 12.78 TiB Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count
value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168
family: Desktop HDD.15 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5900 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: CC54 temp: 24 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 2y 173d 22h cycles: 1719
read: 55.84 TiB written: 36.78 TiB Old-Age: UDMA CRC errors: 13567
alert: Bad cable/connection? Pre-Fail: end-to-end: 99 threshold: 99
alert: FAILING_NOW attribute: Spin_Retry_Count value: 100 worst: 100
threshold: 97
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 224.58 GiB size: 220.06 GiB (97.99%)
used: 96.01 GiB (43.6%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 500 MiB size: 499 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 75 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 26 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 51%
Info:
Processes: 331 Uptime: 42m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.59 GiB
used: 4.54 GiB (29.1%) Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1783 apt: 0 pacman: 1757 lib: 464
flatpak: 26 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04 inxi -Faaazy --no-host
System:
Kernel: 5.10.34-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0  
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10-x86_64  
root=UUID=9a26c8d0-43f4-44ad-a7d3-861d6f6cdbfa rw quiet apparmor=1
security=apparmor resume=UUID=1b3f894f-5481-4241-ace5-c129a0cdb412
udev.log_priority=3
Console: tty pts/1 wm: kwin_x11 DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux  
base: Arch Linux  
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product: Z370 HD3 v: N/A serial: N/A  
Mobo: Gigabyte model: Z370 HD3-CF v: x.x serial: N/A  
UEFI: American Megatrends v: F5 date: 10/30/2017  
CPU:
Info: 6-Core model: Intel Core i7-8700 socket: LGA1151 (U3E1) note: check  
bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6  
model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) microcode: DE cache: L1: 384 KiB  
L2: 12 MiB L3: 12 MiB  
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx  
bogomips: 76799  
Speed: 4299 MHz min/max: 800/4600 MHz base/boost: 4300/8300 volts: 1.1 V  
ext-clock: 100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 4299 2: 4299 3: 4301 4: 4301  
5: 4299 6: 4299 7: 4300 8: 4299 9: 4295 10: 4300 11: 4300 12: 4301  
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled  
Type: l1tf  
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable  
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable  
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI  
Type: spec_store_bypass  
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp  
Type: spectre_v1  
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization  
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,  
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode  
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable  
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia  
v: 460.73.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0  
chip-ID: 10de:1401 class-ID: 0300  
Display: server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nvidia  
display-ID: :0 screens: 1  
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 5120x1080 s-dpi: 97 s-size: 1341x283mm (52.8x11.1")  
s-diag: 1371mm (54")  
Monitor-1: HDMI-0 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 97 size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.2")  
diag: 730mm (28.8")  
Monitor-2: DVI-D-0 res: 2560x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 97  
size: 673x284mm (26.5x11.2") diag: 730mm (28.8")  
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.73.01  
direct render: Yes  
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte  
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a2f0  
class-ID: 0403  
Device-2: NVIDIA GM206 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte  
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fba  
class-ID: 0403  
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.34-1-MANJARO running: yes  
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.18 running: no  
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes  
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.26 running: no  
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-V vendor: Gigabyte driver: e1000e v: kernel  
port: f000 bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15b8 class-ID: 0200  
IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>  
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 8.41 TiB used: 2.76 TiB (32.8%)  
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 960 EVO 250GB  
size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 3B7QCXE7 temp: 25.9 C
scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 120d 4h cycles: 1,406
read-units: 36,278,673 [18.5 TB] written-units: 23,168,811 [11.8 TB]
ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST5000VX0011-1T317X
family: Surveillance size: 4.55 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: VN02 temp: 28 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 262d 8h cycles: 787
read: 52.69 TiB written: 12.78 TiB Pre-Fail: attribute: Spin_Retry_Count
value: 100 worst: 100 threshold: 97
ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM000-1F2168
family: Desktop HDD.15 size: 3.64 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B
logical: 512 B sata: 3.1 speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 5900 rpm serial: <filter>
rev: CC54 temp: 24 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED on: 2y 173d 22h cycles: 1719
read: 55.84 TiB written: 36.78 TiB Old-Age: UDMA CRC errors: 13567
alert: Bad cable/connection? Pre-Fail: end-to-end: 99 threshold: 99
alert: FAILING_NOW attribute: Spin_Retry_Count value: 100 worst: 100
threshold: 97
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 224.58 GiB size: 220.06 GiB (97.99%)
used: 96.01 GiB (43.6%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 500 MiB size: 499 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
maj-min: 259:3
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 75 (default 100)
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.81 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 27.8 C mobo: 16.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 26 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 51%
Info:
Processes: 331 Uptime: 42m wakeups: 0 Memory: 15.59 GiB
used: 4.54 GiB (29.1%) Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1783 apt: 0 pacman: 1757 lib: 464
flatpak: 26 Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.04

Any help to get this right would be much appreciated. I suspect it’s something small, however, I don’t know what it can be.

(Also, don’t worry about “failiing now” hard drive. There’s not data on it; it’s not being used. It’s ust not unpugged yet.)

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Firefox does not use the ~/.config directory. It uses the ~/.mozilla directory. I would recommend checking the permissions on that directory and everything below it ─ directories and files.

Your Engrish is ferry kood. :stuck_out_tongue: :laughing:

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Yersh, I knows it are I blame mistakes on a stupid motor vehicle accident that caused to have absolutely terrible hand-eye coordination, thus my typing has gone down the drain. The worst part? I read it and corrected many mistakes before publishing. :man_shrugging: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

I know, and I posted that below, I don’t have a problem with checking and correcting, but for what I need to know check what and correct to what. And, sadly I don’t know what the permissions should be to rule it out or confirm it.

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Well, that’s easy: they are your files, so you need read and write permission on everything.

5

Also true, thank you.

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Unfortunately, no dice. From what I could figure, the default permissions for ~/.mozilla is 700. And it was that, but I set it anyway:

$ chmod 700 /home/mirdarthos/.mozilla
$ stat /home/mirdarthos/.mozilla

File: /home/mirdarthos/.mozilla
Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 10302h/66306d   Inode: 5541378     Links: 7
Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)   Gid: ( 1000/mirdarthos)
Access: 2020-09-14 14:11:44.907076903 +0200
Modify: 2020-11-13 13:09:47.566418928 +0200
Change: 2021-05-12 10:09:39.326644472 +0200
Birth: 2020-09-14 14:11:44.907076903 +0200

and restarted Firefox. Unfortunately the problem continues.

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What about the files under ~/.mozilla?

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This may sound like a very stupid question, so please forgive me. Should they also be 700? I ask, because I don’t want to do it wrong, to restrictive a permission set isn’t right, but neither is too much freedom.

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Everything under your home directory should be readable and writable to you. However, recursively applying 700 permissions would also add execute permission on files. So the safest is to do the following… :arrow_down:

cd ~
chmod -R u+r,u+w ./
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Thank you very, very much. I just did it:

$ chmod -R u+r,u+w ./

[...]
chmod: changing permissions of './.oh-my-zsh/.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE/feature_request.md': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of './testdisk.log': Operation not permitted
chmod: changing permissions of './file': Operation not permitted

There are a lot of permissions denied for the ``.oh-my-zsh` directory, it looks like the whole directory. I’m, guessing I can ignore them?

The testdisk.log file is a leftover from when I diagnosed the faulty hard drive. One I haven’t deleted yet, so it can be ignored.

The .filefile/directory I have absolutely no knowledge of. I almost suspect it's from a failed/incorrectfind` command.

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Everything in your home directory should be owned by you. :arrow_down:

sudo chown -R mirdarthos:mirdarthos /home/mirdarthos
chmod -R u+r,u+w /home/mirdarthos
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Thank you. I though as much, but just double-checked. I’m no expert and don’t know it all, but I’’'m more than open to learning, Don’t know what did it then, but both commands ran sucessfully:

╭─mirdarthos@Mirdarthos-PC ~
╰─➤  sudo chown -R mirdarthos:mirdarthos /home/mirdarthos                                                                                                                                                                   1 ↵
[sudo] password for mirdarthos:
╭─mirdarthos@Mirdarthos-PC ~
╰─➤  chmod -R u+r,u+w /home/mirdarthos
╭─mirdarthos@Mirdarthos-PC ~
╰─➤

I’ll see if things are better now, thank you very much, @Aragorn!!!

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