On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:57 -0500, Beartooth wrote: > 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. > Doing an install from tarball usually by default puts the binaries in /usr/local/bin. The rpm install usually puts them in /usr/bin. If you have both, you will have to do some playing to make sure the launchers get the new one from /usr/local. It is also possible to tell the tarball installer where to put the new binaries to replace the one installed by the rpm. > 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! > > > -- The Unix way of sex # unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep
