Firefox 4 giving a “couldn't calculate the application directory” error

Question

I'm installing Firefox 4 on my work's managed linux system, so I can't access the package manager.

I downloaded the Firefox 4 tar from their website and unpacked it into my home directory as per the instructions given here which say to unpack the tar into ~, which gives the directory ~/firefox.

After doing this run the firefox script as ~/firefox/firefox. When I do this I get the error message:

Couldn't calculate the application directory.

Has anyone else experienced this. It worked ok with the Firefox RC2 that I've just tried replacing.

Answer 1

I was able to solve this problem on Fedora Linux 10 by adding the directory that contains the firefox binary to the PATH environment variable.