Author: rransom Date: 2011-04-01 02:55:51 +0000 (Fri, 01 Apr 2011) New Revision: 24524

Modified: website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml Log: Warn users to not unpack or run TBB as root

Everyone is *supposed to* know that running big messy programs as root is a Bad Thing, but unpacking or running TBB as root currently makes it fail to run entirely. (See bug #2824.)

Modified: website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml 2011-04-01 02:23:15 UTC (rev 24523) +++ website/trunk/projects/en/torbrowser.wml 2011-04-01 02:55:51 UTC (rev 24524) @@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ <var>LANG</var> is the language listed in the filename), and either double click on the directory or <code>cd</code> into it, then execute the <strong>start-tor-browser</strong> script. This will launch Vidalia and once that connects to Tor, it will launch - Firefox.</p> + Firefox. <em>Do not unpack or run TBB as root.</em></p>

<a id="Windows"></a> <h3><a class="anchor" href="#Windows">Windows instructions</a></h3>