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You can easily try jourself. 1) Have Firefox open 2) Start a root terminal (or a normal one and then "sudo su" 3) su normaluser firefox

It will refuse to start.

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Did you try what I said? I'm pretty sure you just need to set some env vars right. (Not exactly sure which though. But some Googling should help, e.g. maybe how to setup dbus this way.)

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