Firefox opens with no toolbars or history when home directories are on NFS
Issue
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Upon opening Firefox as a regular user, the following error message is displayed:
The bookmarks and history system will not be functional because one of Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some security software can cause this problem.
and the Toolbars, Bookmarks, and History functionality is missing.
Firefox works fine when started as the root user.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Firefox
- Home directory mounted over NFS share
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