Bug 2342756

Summary: Fedora firefox.1 man page describes wrong firefox-bin binary
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: skierpage <info>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description skierpage 2025-01-29 09:17:06 UTC
firefox(1) in Fedora says
>   firefox is a simple shell script that will set up the environment for the actual executable, firefox-bin.
> ...
>   /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox-bin - firefox executable

but the shell script wraps /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox, not firefox-bin, so these two lines should be changed. The Debian firefox(1) man page https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/firefox/firefox.1.en.html correctly documents the firefox-bin file as "Legacy executable"

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read the firefox.1 man page




When and if 2342438 is fixed, the Fedora build won't include a firefox-bin binary.