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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:34:07 -0700
From:      Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Weird problem with firefox
Message-ID:  <20090211203407.GG32090@kokopelli.hydra>
In-Reply-To: <0DA2ED21B90F435C6BEF4978@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
References:  <0689DEC8A848023DDD727D3E@utd65257.utdallas.edu> <0DA2ED21B90F435C6BEF4978@utd65257.utdallas.edu>

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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:17:27PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> --On Tuesday, February 10, 2009 17:49:08 -0600 Paul Schmehl=20
> <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> wrote:
>=20
> >
> >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=
=20
> >click
> >on Help/About, it shows I'm running 2.0.0.20.  WTF?
> >
> >Anyone have a sensible explanation for this?
> >
>=20
> 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.

--=20
Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
Quoth Sean Reifschneider: "If java had real garbage-collection, it would
delete most programs before it executed them."

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