Firefox 4 Beta - Slackware problem.

[Toxhicide]

I downloaded the Firefox 4 Beta, and when I try to run it it opens my Firefox 3.6.6. Whats the problem here? I cant find any linux installation guides anywhere to help with this - not that I need one - but this problem is too weird.

[cheesecake42]

Try completely uninstalling firefox and then just try installing the beta.

[jbum]

Sounds like you still have the older version of firefox installed. I think we need more information from you regarding your problem.

First of all, how are you running firefox - command line, startup icon?

Perhaps your path needs to be adjusted to find the new firefox first?

[reed9]

There's no reason you can't have both versions of Firefox installed, they should have different binary names. Whatever you're using to open Firefox is pointing at the 3.6 binary. I think the default name for the beta binary is firefox-bin.

I would create a directory in /opt for the beta and put everything there, then create a .desktop file to launch, for example:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Firefox Beta
GenericName=Web Browser
Icon=mozicon128.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;
MimeType=text/html
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=/opt/firefox-beta/firefox-bin %u
Terminal=false
MultipleArgs=false
StartupNotify=false

This saved as firefox-beta.desktop in /usr/share/applications will give you a menu entry

[elija]

I'm running the FF beta from my home directory,opt being reserved for real* software that isn't from the repositories. I just created a desktop shortcut to /home/elija/firefox/firefox and it all seems to work

[reed9]

Let me make an addendum to that, I would actually create a slackbuild script to make the beta into a package, and have that installing it in /opt.