FC1 confusing Firefox 1.0 and mozilla-1.4.3-1.fc1.1.legacy

[Jeff Vian]

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!
> 
> 
> 
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