When firefox is started from the bash script on linux (/usr/bin/firefox -> ../lib64/firefox/firefox.sh) the selenium server command that kills the browser silently fails.
Selenium requires the binary firefox file to be executed.
Fix installed firefox in my home dir (eg /home/me/firefox) and to run the binary file need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/me/firefox before executing /home/me/firefox.
Without having to modify the server's firefox you can force the selenium server to use the locally installed on by: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/me/firefox java -jar selenium-server.jar -forcedBrowserMode "*firefox /home/me/firefox/firefox-bin"
