This may interest someone here. I downloaded the Firefox 1.0 tarball, untarred it, did the install, and the very nice new installer ran fine, and opened 1.0. When I closed it, and then tried to open it from a launcher, I got only 0.9.3 -- and I got it from the mozilla launcher as well as the firefox launcher. I cleared out all the firefox I could find, did the download over, and moved the two files into /opt. Repeat the whole routine, including the reversion to the supposedly deleted 0.9.3. Remembering an old release of phoenix, I tried doing "/opt/firefox/firefox &" from a command line. It gave messages, and not the prompt back; but it launched 1.0 It asked me, again, about updating the extensions which it had discovered in my supposedly deleted 0.9.3 -- and checked, and did the ones it found. That may be significant; I don't know. Then I inadvertently crashed my gnome-terminal, from another tab, in an ssh session running pine remotely -- nothing to do with browsers. Re-launched the terminal, and had to recreate all my tabs (I generally run five or six, with different color backgrounds for different standard apps.) This time I put in an extra tab for firefox. The same command worked -- right, with no messages and a proper return to prompt. So I wouldn't really need an extra tab just for it -- as I did, at one stage, for the old phoenix. But the system still confuses browsers -- in an odd way. If I launch mozilla, either from the main menu or from a launcher in a drawer on the panel, what happens depends on Firefox. If Firefox is not running, I get mozilla. If firefox is running, I get another instance of firefox. This is no very great inconvenience, since I rarely use mozilla; but how weird can you get?? And if I ever should want to launch mozilla when firefox is running, can I? By hacking a command like /mozilla/mozilla, maybe? I haven't tried that -- yet ... -- Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!
