Re: firefox showing wrong version

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:04:57 -0500 (EST) 
Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 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. 
> 
> Half accurate - I'm actually starting firefox as ./firefox from the same 
> directory it reports as being 2.0.0.11. 
> 
> I did get around it by re-downloading it from mozilla.com (I did this a 
> week or so ago and nothing changed), but this time, the downloaded 
> mozilla.com version reports 2.0.0.11. 
> 
> I call that a bandaid approach and still want to learn why my explicit 
> invocation of firefox from that directory claims to versions.