Title: Using firefox on Guix distribution
       Author: Solène
       Date: 16 August 2017
       Tags: linux guix
       Description: 
       
       **Update 2020**: This method may certainly not work anymore but I
       don't have a Guix installation to try.
       
       I'm new to Guix, it's a wonderful system but it's such different than
       any other usual linux distribution that it's hard to achieve some
       basics tasks. As Guix is 100% free/libre software, Firefox has been
       removed and replaced by icecat. This is nearly the same software but
       some "features" has been removed (like webRTC) for some reasons
       (security, freedom). I don't blame Guix team for that, I understand
       the choice.
       
       But my problem is that I need Firefox. I finally achieve to get it
       working from the official binary downloaded from mozilla website.
       
       You need to install some packages to get the libraries, which will
       become available under your profile directory. Then, tells firefox to
       load libraries from there and it will start.
       
           guix package -i glibc glib gcc gtk+ libxcomposite dbus-glib libxt
           LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/.guix-profile/lib/
       ~/.guix-profile/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ~/firefox_directory/firefox
       
       Also, it seems that running icecat and firefox simultanously works,
       they store data in ~/.mozilla/icecat and ~/.mozilla/firefox so they
       are separated.