# Can't get org-roam-graph to display in Firefox

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [October 3, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087 "2021-10-03T11:04:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![l8tcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@l8tcoder](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/l8tcoder)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 11:04am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087/1 "2021-10-03T11:04:54Z")

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Hi all,

I’m incredibly frustrated because I can’t get org-roam-graph to display the graph in Firefox. Instead, the text **svg** file is displayed in a buffer. I’m running the following:

**OS:** macOS (Big Sur)  
**Emacs:** GNU Emacs 27.2  
**org-roam:** 2.1.0

Any help will be much appreciated. I’ve searched this discourse, the org-roam docs, GitHub, reddit, etc.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087/3 "2021-10-03T17:40:59Z")

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Have a look at customising variable **org-roam-graph-viewer**. (part of the manual: [Org-roam User Manual](https://www.orgroam.com/manual.html#Graphing)).

It is a path to the application. I don’t use macOS but I believe you should be able to find out how to correctly define a path to an application in Emacs for macOS.

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**Author:** ![l8tcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b782af/32.png) [@l8tcoder](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/l8tcoder)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087/4 "2021-10-03T18:30:40Z")

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Thank you for this suggestion. When I set the org-roam-graph-viewer variable to the path to Firefox (/Applications/Firefox.app), I get the following error:

```auto
Error in process sentinel: Executable not found: "/Applications/Firefox.app"

```

This looks to me to be the correct path because I can go there in Finder and run the app.

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2021, 7:25pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087/5 "2021-10-03T19:25:40Z")

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Judging from one of the answers in this [StackExchange](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10171280/how-to-launch-gui-emacs-from-command-line-in-osx), I believe the path that Emacs would recognize is something like this:

```auto
/Applications/Firefox.app/contents/MacOS/Firefox

```

Firefox.app is actually a “folder”; right click on it to choose the “contents” (or content) in the context menu to see the inside. There should be more files. I believe you would need to go deeper than `Firefox.app` (I believe this is how an application on macOS is bundled to look like a single app).

I am hoping that people using macOS can jump in to assist here.

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**Author:** ![laotang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2acd7d/32.png) [@laotang](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/laotang)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/cant-get-org-roam-graph-to-display-in-firefox/2087/6 "2021-10-10T12:38:17Z")

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> [@nobiot](#):
>
> I am hoping that people using macOS can jump in to assist here.

This works for me (not sure how case-sensitive this really is):

```auto
(setq org-roam-graph-viewer "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox")

```