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Followed the download and install for firefox into my linux home directory. When launching firefox got an error message about a mission shared object. Additional detail to follow.

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When launching firefox got the following error: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file ~/firefox/libxpcom.so libxul.so cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM (but file libxul.so is there) what do I do???

When launching firefox got the following error: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file ~/firefox/libxpcom.so libxul.so cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM (but file libxul.so is there) what do I do???

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Make sure that you meet the system requirements and have all required libraries installed.


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