diff --git a/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp b/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp

--- a/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp

+++ b/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp

@@ -127,17 +127,21 @@ nsGNOMEShellService::Init()

   nsCOMPtr<nsILocalFile> appPath;

   rv = dirSvc->Get(NS_XPCOM_CURRENT_PROCESS_DIR, NS_GET_IID(nsILocalFile),

                    getter_AddRefs(appPath));

   NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv);

   rv = appPath->AppendNative(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING(MOZ_APP_NAME));

   NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv);

-  return appPath->GetNativePath(mAppPath);

+  /* This path to firefox is hardcoded for the default path setting */

+  mAppPath.Assign ("/usr/bin/firefox");

+  

+  //return appPath->GetNativePath(mAppPath);

+  return NS_OK;

 }

 NS_IMPL_ISUPPORTS1(nsGNOMEShellService, nsIShellService)

 PRBool

 nsGNOMEShellService::KeyMatchesAppName(const char *aKeyValue) const

 {