Firefox 8.01 on Debian 6.03 GTK warning problems

Question

Folks: just installed Firefox 8.01 on Debian 6.03/xfce. I decompressed the tar.gz file to /usr/local/bin, and typed:
kcredden@equuleus:/usr/local/bin/firefox$ ./firefox
(process:2466): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:
http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
Refusing to initialize GTK+.
kcredden@equuleus:/usr/local/bin/firefox$ WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!
WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported! This is an application bug!
I'm getting a similar error in Thunderbird, but it runs. I'll post info about it in the tbird forums.

Answer 1

You may be infected with malware.
Do a malware check with some malware scanning programs.<br />
You need to scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.<br />
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.<br />
<br />
* http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php - Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware
* http://www.superantispyware.com/ - SuperAntispyware
* http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/defender/default.mspx - Windows Defender: Home Page
* http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html - Spybot Search & Destroy
* http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php - Ad-Aware Free
See also:
* "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
* https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Searches+are+redirected+to+another+site
If using the above listed scanners does not fix it or if you are blocked from installing those scanners then ask advice on one of the forums that specialize in malware removal mentioned in the <i>Popups_not_blocked</i> article.
* "Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked