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   Ralph Fox to All   
   Re: Where is firefox 'executable'   
   04 Jan 26 13:41:24   
   
   From: -rf-nz-@-.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 23:09:41 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D´Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 13:43:28 +0100, occam wrote:   
   >   
   >> Where is the firefox  program stored in Linux?   
   >   
   >     ldo@theon:~> type -p firefox   
   >     /usr/bin/firefox   
   >     ldo@theon:~> ls -l /usr/bin/firefox   
   >     lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 19 11:22 /usr/bin/firefox ->   
   ../lib/firefox/firefox   
      
      
   Your Firefox is apparently _not_ the one from the Mint repo.   
   (The OP did not say where his Firefox was from.)   
      
       me@localhost:~$ type -p firefox   
       /usr/bin/firefox   
       me@localhost:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox   
       -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 168 Dec 10 03:33 /usr/bin/firefox   
       me@localhost:~$ file /usr/bin/firefox   
       /usr/bin/firefox: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable   
       me@localhost:~$ cat /usr/bin/firefox   
       #!/bin/sh   
      
       # if this isn't in the environment, firefox will forget it's the   
   default browser   
       export MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER=/usr/bin/firefox   
       exec /usr/lib/firefox/firefox "$@"   
       me@localhost:~$   
      
      
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