Weird problem with firefox

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Wed Feb 11 15:28:56 PST 2009


--On Wednesday, February 11, 2009 14:34:07 -0600 Chad Perrin 
<perrin at apotheon.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:17:27PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, February 10, 2009 17:49:08 -0600 Paul Schmehl
>> <pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > I just uninstalled Firefox v. 2.0.0.20 and then installed firefox v. 3.0.5.
>> > Which shows one firefox binary; firefox3.  Yet, when I start firefox and
>> > click
>> > on Help/About, it shows I'm running 2.0.0.20.  WTF?
>> >
>> > Anyone have a sensible explanation for this?
>> >
>>
>> Never mind.  Rebooting fixed the problem.
>
> Rebooting?  You shouldn't have had to do that.  At most, you might have
> needed to restart your window manager and/or menu program.  If you were
> starting Firefox from the shell, you probably just needed to enter
> `rehash` to get it to recognize changes to what's in the execution path.

I had to reboot for unrelated reasons.

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