Re: Firefox not showing in Applications menus

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:

> Bret Busby wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > I have Firefox installed on my system (Debian 4.0), and today an update for 
> > firefox showed, and was installed using the system update system.
> >
> > With the recent problems with Iceape, I thought that I would try Firefox.
> >
> > Synaptic shows that I have Firefox 2.0.0.15 installed, but I can't find it 
> > in the Applications menus.
> >
> > I have looked in both the top level Internet menu, and in the 
> > Debian->Apps->Net menu, and in the Office menu (in case it got inserted in 
> > there), and the Other menu, but I cannot find Firefox.
> >
> > How do I run Firefox, if I cannot find it, and, why, when it is installed, 
> > and, updated by the orange star icon that shows updates are available, does 
> > it not appear in the Applications menus?
>
> You really mean FF or iceweasel?
>
> hugo@debian:~$ which firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox
> hugo@debian:~$ which iceweasel
> /usr/bin/iceweasel
>
> Try:
> update-menus
>
>
>
> Hugo

Firstly, I have (or, I understood that I have) both Firefox and 
Iceweasel installed. I wanted to try Firefox (separate to Iceape and 
Iceweasel), to find whether it had greater stability and security than 
Iceape and Iceweasel.

I was also  (in addition to the response above) sent the following 
instructions, off-list:

> 1 -you need to find firefox path , just type this command :
>
> locate firefox
>
> then u will get somthing like :
>
>  /usr/bin/firefox
>
>
> 2- you have to edit menu by :
>
> right-click on Applications then select  Edit Menus

It kind of worked....

When I did the locate firefox command, it gave an interesting response. The response had groups of about four lines, with dates in the text. None of the
responses had the /usr/bin.firefox path.

I then used the alacarte menu editor (the only way that I found, of editing the menus - remember, this is Debian 4.0), and manually inserted Firefox as an
entry, with the invocation comand /usr/bin/firefox.

Then, when I closed that, and ran the Firefox comand from the menu, it added another session of Iceweasel to my already open Iceweasel windows (I hadn't used
Iceweasel for months, due to an application crash, and was bookmarking the windows of the last session, and shutting Iceweasel windows, as I went, so had
some Iceweasel windows open), and, renamed the task in the taskbar, to Firefox.

I also ran the update-menus command,as mentioned above, and then ran 
Firefox from the menu, again, and got the same response.

I also note that both Firefox and Iceweasel, have the same icon, in the 
icon editor that I used when I manually added Firefox to the menu.

So, now, it appears to me, that the Firefox that is installed (Firefox 2.0.0.15) and Iceweasel (Iceweasel 2.0.0.15) are one and the same.

It gets confusinger and confusinger.

--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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