firefox showing wrong version

[Jimmy Wu]

On Dec 7, 2007 5:03 PM, Ben Kevan <ben.kevan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 07 December 2007 03:37:16 pm Corey Bettenhausen wrote:
> > Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> > > On my Ubuntu Gutsy system with a recent apt-get update/apt-get
> upgrade:
> > >
> > > scott at scott-desktop:~$ which firefox
> > > /usr/bin/firefox
> > > scott at 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
> >
> > You may have two versions of firefox installed and launcher is pointing
> > to the old one.  Not sure how that could happen but something to check
> > out.  Right-click on the launcher and select "Properties".  What command
> > is it running?
> > -Corey
>
> Type:
>
> which firefox
>
> That will tell you which one you open.
>
> Ben
>

He already did - the point of the OP's question was why does the same
command (ie firefox) show different versions when invoked in different ways?

I don't know what's going on either, but what does dpkg say about firefox?

Regards,

Jimmy
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