Gecko Drwxr-xr-x May 2026

ls -ld gecko

Output:

drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 Nov  1 10:00 gecko

Congratulations – you have just generated the exact keyword gecko drwxr-xr-x. gecko drwxr-xr-x

Run:

ls -ld gecko

Sample output:

drwxr-xr-x 2 alice developers 4096 Apr 19 12:34 gecko

This tells you:

When you run:

ls -l /usr/lib/firefox/

You might see output like:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Oct 20 10:15 gecko
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 123456 Oct 20 10:15 libxul.so

Or a subdirectory named gecko containing resources. The ls command prepends drwxr-xr-x to the folder name. ls -ld gecko

What is happening: A developer created a folder named gecko inside the Firefox directory to isolate a Gecko-related component, and standard directory permissions are being displayed.