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Re: firefox showing wrong version



 On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Jerry Feldman wrote: 

> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 07:03:32 -0500 (EST) 
> Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
>> On my Ubuntu Gutsy system with a recent apt-get update/apt-get upgrade: 
>> 
>> scott@scott-desktop:~$ which firefox 
>> /usr/bin/firefox 
>> scott@scott-desktop:~$ firefox --version 
>> Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.11, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org 
>> 
>> 
>>> From within firefox: 
>> 
>> Help > About Firefox 
>> 
>> Firefox 
>> version 2.0.0.8 
>> 
>> 
>> What am I missing, or what's going on?   Why isn't the application itself 
>> showing 2.0.0.11? 
> 
> It would appear that you have 2 versions on your system. Exit firefox, 
> and run it from the command line. it should bring up 2.0.0.11. I just 
> checked it out on my Gutsy laptop, and I got the same result you did. 
> It appears that on my system I have both the 32-bit older version and 
> the 64-bit Gutsy version. I think you probably have a similar problem. 
> ii  firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10 
> ii  firefox32 2.0.0.6  The 32bit firefox browser for the amd64 
> 
> So, in your case, your firefox icon is picking up the 2.0.0.8 version. 


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