I just installed xampp 8.2.4 successfully.
I have 1 user account set to Administrator.
When I run xampp from the terminal, everything is fine no errors.
I am trying to run the GUI display. When I run
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sudo ./manager-linux-x64.run
However, when I click "Go To Application", I get the following error:
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Running Firefox as root in a regular user's session is not supported.
A few things to say here... First, I am not trying to run firefox as a root, XAMPP IS. Second, I switched Chrome as my default and rebooted the system to only get the same error (As many posts on the subject suggested). Third, I would try to run as a normal user as others suggested but it seems they got nowhere with that approach. Especially when you read that running firefox as a root is a known bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1206441). FOURTH BUT NOT LEAST, there are countless of people out here trying to figure this out and it seems nobody is getting anywhere! I read dozens of posts on the matter.
My first solution was to find the directive that is given to xampp in the config files, to use firefox as the default; and switch it, but could not find it in http.config, or any of the other config files. I looked in ALL of them! Furthermore, I could not find a single bit of info on just WHERE that directive is. AS I stated earlier,. firefox is no longer my default browser. What is going on here???
I have a screenshot to upload but it seems there is no direct way of uploading it here to the forum.
It would be nice if xampp would address this issue seriously, considering so many of us are struggling on the same subject.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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