I discovered my problem. Several years ago I pointed the firefox profile to a
directory in the /var filesystem so that I could run it from several systems
in my network at once w/o problems (each system had its own set of profiles).
So this was a local configuration/setup issue since my new system
This is on a new system/install with firefox-66.0.5,1. When I try t run
firefox it fails with this error message:
JavaScript error:
jar:file:///usr/local/lib/firefox/omni.ja!/components/XULStore.js
The system does have the omni.ja file installed:
root@darth:6 /root> ls -l