The system I'm currently running on was built from scratch using Slackware a little over a year ago.
The ESR versions of both Firefox and Thunderbird are installed as part of the Slackware installation, in /usr/lib/firefox-24.1.0 and /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.1.0 respectively. The base executables (/usr/lib/firefox-24.1.0/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.1.0/thunderbird) are accessed via symlinks in /usr/bin...
/usr/bin/firefox -> /usr/lib/firefox-24.1.0/firefox
/usr/bin/thunderbird -> /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.1.0/thunderbird
The remainder of the firefox and thunderbird packages (additional executables, private libraries and other files required at runtime) reside in the /usr/lib/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird directories and various directories inside them, exactly the way you would get them if you unpacked an install/update kit tar archive from Mozilla.
This arrangement of private files in a containing directory around a main executable works well, especially as the main executable can obtain it's location from it's environment, and needs to be left the way Mozilla have arranged it. Of course, Mozilla may also change the layout and actual files from time to time.
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