On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 07:55:24PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:27 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 05/10/2018 11:13 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > >> I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of > > >> Firefox Quantum v-60.0. > > >> > > >> Up to this point the previous versions, the 59.x.x, series had > > >> been very happily residing in /opt/firefox. I uncompressed the > > >> downlo9aded file as a user and thee copied the firefox directory > > >> tree as root > > >> > > >> I did the upgrade exactly the same way, but now when I try opening > > >> firefox I get: > > >> > > >> comp@AbNormal:/opt/firefox$ ./firefox > > That should be firefox not /firefox.
No, Stephen changed to a particular directory and wants to make sure that the firefox executable in this directory is run. ./firefox is correct. firefox by itself would search the PATH, and no proper PATH includes ".", although his might include "/opt/firefox". -dsr-
