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Couldn't load XPCOM.

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Yang Lifu
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Nothing happens double clicking， running ./firefox gives

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/yang/bin/firefox/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM.

Firefox downloaded from mozilla.org firefox-23.0.tar.bz2, system Fedora 19 64-bit

Nothing happens double clicking， running ''./firefox'' gives XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /home/yang/bin/firefox/libxul.so: libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Couldn't load XPCOM. Firefox downloaded from mozilla.org firefox-23.0.tar.bz2, system Fedora 19 64-bit

Chosen solution

Do you have 32 bit versions of those libraries, assuming that you have a 32 bit Nightly version?

You can try the 64 bit version.

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cor-el
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Make sure that you meet the System Requirements (GTK+ and GLib) for the current Firefox version.

Yang Lifu
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I thinks the requirement are met, Firefox 22 provided by Fedora runs fine.

Modified by Yang Lifu

cor-el
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Chosen Solution

Do you have 32 bit versions of those libraries, assuming that you have a 32 bit Nightly version?

You can try the 64 bit version.