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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 "$@"        me@localhost:~$                     --       Kind regards       Ralph Fox       🦊️              He’ſt ne’re have thing good cheap that’s afraid to ask the price.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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