[#SRC-454] Use "locate" command to help find Firefox on Unix systems (includes patch)

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Use "locate" command to help find Firefox on Unix systems (includes patch)

Created: 03/Apr/08 11:07 AM Updated: Today 01:36 PM

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Launcher - Firefox

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Original Estimate:	Unknown	Remaining Estimate:	Unknown	Time Spent:	Unknown
File Attachments:	1. FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java.patch (3 kb) 2. FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java.patch (3 kb)

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Hi everyone. I would like to contribute this patch. We have been using it internally to eliminate the need for symlinks (or modifying the PATH environment variable) on Linux and it seems to work very well :-).

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Matt Solnit - 03/Apr/08 11:08 AM

Patch to the trunk version of org/openqa/selenium/server/browserlaunchers/FirefoxCustomProfileLauncher.java.

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Matt Solnit - 03/Apr/08 11:15 AM

Oops... here is the patch for the correct SVN repository :-).

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Jack Senechal - 04/Dec/08 01:36 PM

On Ubuntu (8.10) the firefox-bin file is renamed simply firefox, and it is located under /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.4/. Running 'locate firefox' returns a huge list of things. Who knows why Ubuntu chose to do this, but it would be nice to find a solution which could encompass Ubuntu's configuration as well. Every manual configuration step that can be removed dramatically enhances usability, presuming that the automatic replacement works at least 99% of the time!