Start Firefox from Terminal on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

Question

This is what I get when I try to start the executable:

Mac-Pro:MacOS george$ /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libsqlite3.dylib
  Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
  Reason: Incompatible library version: Security requires version 9.0.0 or later, but libsqlite3.dylib provides version 1.0.0
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  9870 Trace/BPT trap          "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

I also tried:

MacOS george$ open -a /Applications/Firefox

FSPathMakeRef(/Applications/Firefox) failed with error -43.

Is there a particular way to start the application from the command line?

Answer 1

The problem with your second attempt is that the path includes the .app extenstion.

Try using either

open -a /Applications/Firefox.app

or

open /Applications/Firefox.app

Answer 2

You want to run /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin