How do I run Firefox OS as a standalone application?

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Published on 2012-11-15T22:52:18Z Indexed on 2012/11/15 23:26 UTC
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I got the add-on for the Firefox OS simulator, and it works great! It even keeps functioning after Firefox is closed, so I can save processing power for other things.

I'd like to run it as a standalone application, so that I don't even have to open Firefox in the first place.
I've gone to the System Monitor, and it says that the process (I guessed which by CPU usage and filename) was started via /home/james/.mozilla/firefox-trunk/vkuuxfit.default/extensions/[email protected]/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g/plugin-container 3386 true tab, so I tried running that in the Terminal (after I'd closed the simulator, of course,) but it gives this:

james@james-OptiPlex-GX620:~/.mozilla/firefox-trunk/vkuuxfit.default/extensions/[email protected]/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g$ ./plugin-container 3386 true tab
./plugin-container: error while loading shared libraries: libxpcom.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
james@james-OptiPlex-GX620:~/.mozilla/firefox-trunk/vkuuxfit.default/extensions/[email protected]/resources/r2d2b2g/data/linux64/b2g$

What should I do? Is what I'm attempting even possible? (It should be, since the simulator kept running even after Firefox itself was closed...)

NOTE: I've tried chmod u+sx plugin-container, but that didn't help.

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