> to make it system-wide add the export line
> to the /etc/profile
>
> > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > > export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/bin/mozilla-1.7.3
> > >
> > > and it works, until I log out of my user account and then log back in.
> > > Then I have to do it all over again. Why isn't the setting being saved?
> >
> > Environment variables are only for the current session.
> >
> > If you want it always, put it in your .profile or other shell login
> > configuration file.

I don't know where that (.profile) is.

> > Or simply make a "galeon" wrapper script that does that for you before it
> > runs the real galeon.
> >
> > Such as:
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/bin/mozilla-1.7.3
> > export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME
> > exec /path/to/real/galeon "$@"
> >
> > Place the above in your ~/bin/galeon and put ~/bin at beginning of your
> > path.

Again, don't know where that is, and have little experience with shell 
scripts.

<rant>

I guess my problem now is that I'm just ticked off that I have to do all this 
just to open a stupid browser that used to work just fine! I did a security 
patch updgrade and now things are broken, as far as I'm concerned. Things 
break every time I do security or any kind of system upgrades. And if I don't 
want to upgrade because I dread breaking a perfectly running system, I hear 
about how if people don't want to secure their system they shouldn't use the 
Internet, etc, etc... 

But how in the world do we tell newbies to switch to Linux when things are 
this complicated? It may not be difficult for you guys who dream in 
commandline, but that's not the majority of computer users- certainly not the 
majority of people who want to get away from Windows. There's no way the 
people at my office could, or would want to, do this just to get the browser 
to work.

I'm tempted to reinstall Slack just the way I had it, secure it with my 
firewall and services turned off, just the way I had it, and to heck with the 
patches!
</rant>

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, I DO appreciate your help.

Siri Amrit
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