firefox showing wrong version

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Jimmy Wu wrote:

> 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?

Well, I downloaded a fresh copy from Mozilla.com (did this before, too, 
but I had the same problem).  Did it again now, ran it from the extracted 
directory, and it shows the proper version.

Hmmm....

Well, at least I appear to now have access to the latest version.

Thanks.

Scott

>
> Regards,
>
> Jimmy
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