Interesting. I know other distros had tried this, and I seem to recall 
reading about this during my last LFS build, but I didn't realize it was 
in an actual release.
Good tips, thanks.

On 2015-07-16 13:01, Ed wrote:
> yes - I know - not "all" of the files - /bin /sbin etc the stuff I've
> always thought of as "the tree" - Fedora now has it all under /usr
> because /usr is very unlikely to be on a remote shared mount accessed
> ro by multiple systems, and potentially unavailable during boot.
> don't ask - just be happy.
> 
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Ed <plug@0x1b.com> wrote:
>> Nathan - Fedora has made changes to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy by
>> locating all files under /usr and replacing the rest, like /bin, with
>> simlinks, in this case to /usr/bin. This may create problems with
>> permissions that Firefox and Chrome are not dealing with.  As to /tmp
>> - you should expect it to go away with each boot - many people encrypt
>> /tmp without keeping the key so that there is no information leakage
>> from one boot to the next.
>> 
>> I would start looking at the permissions for the files Firefox and
>> Chrome can't seam to find in the new F22 locations - happy hunting
>> 
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've been running Fedora 22 since it came out and have been very 
>>> happy
>>> except a couple issues.
>>> 
>>> * Firefox wants me to login to sync everytime I close the browser and 
>>> open
>>> it again. It says there is a problem syncing. However, once I give it 
>>> my
>>> password again it syncs fine and continues to work until I close the 
>>> browser
>>> (all instances). Then when I open it again it all starts over.
>>> 
>>> * Similarly Chrome has an issue remember passwords. It seems while it 
>>> is
>>> open it remembers my passwords and all works well, but initially when 
>>> I open
>>> it I have to log in to several places as if it does not remember my
>>> passwords.
>>> 
>>> I am not using LastPass. I like the default password managers for 
>>> both
>>> browsers. I use them for separate things and I do not want unified 
>>> passwords
>>> between the two.
>>> 
>>> Does F22 have a temp problem? I really get the impression that much 
>>> of my
>>> browser data is being stored in tmp space and is lost when I reboot, 
>>> which
>>> is daily because Grid Autosport doesn't work in Linux... ;-)
>>> 
>>> I cannot find any references to this in Google as all searches with 
>>> Firefox
>>> and sync return lots of people having problems, but not my problem. 
>>> These
>>> issues are common across several machines I have and each has been
>>> wiped/installed multiple times.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
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