Problem with opening Firefox

[mdofx]

Hi,

I have downloaded and unextracted the Firefox recently. And I got a problem with opening it.

When I typed the below commands in the terminal.

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~$ cd Firefox
~$ Firefox

The Firefox didn't start, but the Iceweasel.

Could anyone help me?

[roseway]

The first thing to realise is that Iceweasel is Firefox with a different name, so you didn't have to download Firefox at all - you could simply use Iceweasel.

But if you really want to use your downloaded Firefox, then there are two more things to understand:

1. Filenames in Linux are case-sensitive, and the executable for Firefox is 'firefox', not 'Firefox'.
2. Linux handles file paths differently to Windows. To run an executable in the current directory, you should type ./ before the filename ('.' means the current directory). So the command which you should have typed after entering the directory where Firefox was extracted is:

./firefox

[the trooper]

You need to run the executable within the Firefox directory,so for example on my system It's run from /opt with the command:

/opt/firefox/firefox

[cynwulf]

You need to run the executable within the Firefox directory,so for example on my system It's run from /opt with the command:

/opt/firefox/firefox

That's pretty much how mine is set up. It works and it leaves Iceweasel set up as it is. I just added a launcher to the main menu.

[johnschong]

I also have a problem when opening firefox

the terminal showed

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johnson@johnsonxp:~$ cd firefox
johnson@johnsonxp:~/firefox$ ./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
johnson@johnsonxp:~/firefox$ 

[cynwulf]

I also have a problem when opening firefox

the terminal showed

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johnson@johnsonxp:~$ cd firefox
johnson@johnsonxp:~/firefox$ ./firefox
./firefox-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
johnson@johnsonxp:~/firefox$ 

Do you have Iceweasel installed? In fact which desktop/wm are you running? I say this because libgtk2.0-0 is one of gnome's dependencies so should already be installed.

Also why are you installing firefox in your home directory?