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Re: Trying to load mozilla loads firefox instead ???



On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 16:52:38 -0700, Paul Woods
<pwoods_deb@nwnetsolutions.net> wrote:
> Okay, I have an IDE here (eclipse) that apparently relys somewhat on
> mozilla 1.5 or 1.6 being installed.  Lucky me, I have 1.6.  Having
> issues with Eclipse though, I was told that I had the wrong version of
> mozilla most likely.  I started mozilla to check the version, and
> firefox loaded instead.  I went to the command line, typed in 'mozilla',
> and firefox loaded again.  Going to /usr/bin, I see mozilla and
> mozilla-1.6, so I tried 'mozilla-1.6' at the command line - and firefox
> once more.
> 
> I reinstalled mozilla (i'm using deb testing), and it worked until I
> logged out and back in again.  Once more, firefox has somehow taken
> over.  Ideas?  Thanks.

/usr/bin/mozilla and /usr/bin/mozilla-<vers> are scripts (actually,
the former points to /etc/alternatives/mozilla which points to the
latter on my machine).  In them should be a variable MOZ_PROGRAM . 
You should check to see that this is pointing to
/usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin and that you're not getting it set
elsewhere in, say, your (or the system) .bashrc or .bash_login .

The first thing to try is
prompt> echo $MOZ_PROGRAM
If this isn't empty, that's probably your problem.

-- 
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh



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