firefox 17.0.1 on linux won't start - Couldn't calculate the application directory.
downloaded FF 17.0.1 for linux (English - US), extracted, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to pick up the included libraries, ran ./firefox from the extracted directory and got: "Couldn't calculate the application directory." Running on SLES 10 SP2 and SLES 11 SP1 with same results. Window manager is FVWM.
downloaded FF 17.0.1 for linux (English - US), extracted, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to pick up the included libraries, ran ./firefox from the extracted directory and got: "Couldn't calculate the application directory." Running on SLES 10 SP2 and SLES 11 SP1 with same results. Window manager is FVWM.
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Just in case you haven't read this yet. . . Firefox won't start - find solutions
Make sure that you meet the system-requirements and have all required libraries installed (not sure about glib in 17.0.1).
- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/17.0.2/system-requirements/
- http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/18.0/system-requirements/
Did you try to start Firefox via the terminal console to see if that brings up more messages?