[Firefox] Link broken, and runtime_loader cannot open file libmozjs.so

[andreasf]

It's been a while that I've run Haiku and it used to work some weeks ago. Now with hrev26134, the link from the Applications menu is broken (the broken link icon, and message "There was an error resolving the link."), and when launching /boot/apps/firefox/firefox-bin from the Terminal I get:

runtime_loader: cannot open file libmozjs.so

Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/boot/apps/firefox did not help. Re-running jam -q haiku-image led to the same results.

[mmlr]

That's probably because you're not running it from the correct working directory. When you launch from a Terminal you have to cd into the firefox directory first of course, otherwise the relative paths cannot be resolved. Double clicking should work, as should correcting and using the link.

[diver]

IIRC you need to launch FF by "firefox" shell script and not by "firefox-bin".

[andreasf]

Nope, I tried from within the directory.

What works though is deleting the downloaded Firefox.zip. With the newly downloaded zip it works just fine.

This means the problem is within the Optional Package definition, it always names the downloaded file Firefox.zip while virtually all other packages have versioned names (version and/or date) so that they are re-downloaded when necessary. Changing title to reflect this.

[andreasf]

The new package is different, it goes to /boot/apps/Firefox and is named Firefox, therefore the broken link. The link points directly to Firefox, but there is also a run_mozilla.sh script.

[diver]

This is how I start firefox which comes from OptionalPackage:

cd /boot/apps/firefox

./firefox

[tqh]

Unless someone did some reordering in the optional package firefox-bin will always fail. firefox is the script that sets up libs and things for launch. (And yes we don't like it either).

[andreasf]

This issue has been resolved in the meantime. Please close the ticket.