Firefox XPCOM error

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mortecai4

I was updating an old version of FreeBSD, but my computer got too hot and shutdown by itself. Now when I try to open firefox from the console I get this error:
Code: 
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
Shared object "libpng16.so.16" not found, required by "libxul.so"
Couldn't load XPCOM.
I can't connect to the local area network, pinging Google gives me a 'hostname lookup failure' error.
Any ideas?
 
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Your DNS resolving isn't working properly. Check /etc/resolv.conf, see resolv.conf(5).

NB, pinging an IP address doesn't require resolving and should work. If that doesn't work either your network isn't set up correctly.
 
In case previous answers in this thread isn't clear enough: ping'ing an IP address looks like this:
Code: 
tingo@kg-core1$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=13.318 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=14.269 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 13.318/13.793/14.269/0.476 ms
If you wonder what this address is, host(1) will tell you (if you have a DNS working resolver):
Code: 
tingo@kg-core1$ host 8.8.8.8
8.8.8.8.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer google-public-dns-a.google.com.
 
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