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firefox package

  1. Bug #809384
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 809384

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In , Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

On current nightly and aurora builds, Firefox will fail to start with "Couldn't load XPCOM" under these conditions:

1) The executable is loaded from the users PATH,
...and...
2) There is a file called "firefox" in the current working directory

This is because if you pass a relative path to realpath, it will resolve the path if the file exists in the current working directory. This causes mozilla::BinaryPath::Get() to return the wrong path.

This was reported to https://launchpad.net/bugs/809384 by Ben, who experienced this because he has a folder named "firefox" in his home directory. This is enough to prevent a current aurora build from starting