Why is there a folder ./mozilla in non-GUI operating system?

[amiralnoah]

On my server, there is a .mozilla folder.
Where did it come from?
I'm using CentOS 7

• $ ls -a -l
  total 44
  drwx------. 6 username username 4096 Jan 18 15:43 .
  drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4096 Jan 18 17:55 ..
  -rw-------. 1 username username 1127 Jan 18 17:22 .bash_history
  -rw-r--r--. 1 username username 18 Nov 20 07:02 .bash_logout
  -rw-r--r--. 1 username username 193 Nov 20 07:02 .bash_profile
  -rw-r--r--. 1 username username 231 Nov 20 07:02 .bashrc
  drwxrwxr-x. 3 username username 4096 Jan 16 16:43 .cache
  drwxrwxr-x. 3 username username 4096 Jan 16 16:43 .config
  drwxr-xr-x. 4 username username 4096 Jan 16 12:44 .mozilla
  drwx------. 2 username username 4096 Jan 18 12:54 .ssh
  -rw-------. 1 username username 672 Jan 18 15:43 .viminfo

• $ locate mozilla
  /etc/skel/.mozilla
  /etc/skel/.mozilla/extensions
  /etc/skel/.mozilla/plugins
  /home/amiral/.mozilla
  /home/amiral/.mozilla/extensions
  /home/amiral/.mozilla/plugins
  /usr/lib/mozilla
  /usr/lib/mozilla/extensions
  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
  /usr/lib64/mozilla
  /usr/lib64/mozilla/extensions
  /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
  /usr/lib64/xulrunner/mozilla-xremote-client
  /usr/lib64/xulrunner/run-mozilla.sh
  /usr/share/mozilla
  /usr/share/mime/application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml.xml
  /usr/share/mime/application/x-mozilla-bookmarks.xml

[avij]

If you have the mozilla-filesystem package installed, you will get the files you mentioned. That package is required by firefox, gnome-shell, gnome-shell, icedtea-web, kdenetwork-kopete, PackageKit-browser-plugin, thunderbird and xulrunner, so you probably have one of those packages installed.

[amiralnoah]

That makes sense. Thanks a lot.

• $ sudo yum list mozilla-filesystem
  Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
  Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * base: mirror.idealhosting.net.tr
  * extras: mirror.idealhosting.net.tr
  * updates: mirror.vit.com.tr
  Installed Packages
  mozilla-filesystem.x86_64 1.9-11.el7 @anaconda

[jlehtone]

On my server, there is a .mozilla folder.
Where did it come from?

Try:

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rpm -qf /etc/skel/.mozilla

(Or preferably read man rpm to find out what that would do.)