I wanted to upgrade from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7.

There is no RPM available for RedHat 9.0, or at least I couldn't find
one, so I downloaded from the Mozilla web site and followed the install
instructions. All seemed to go well.

However if I do Help->About Mozilla Firefox, here is what is says:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
Firefox/1.0.6

So did I upgrade? Is this message just wrong or confusing?
If I am still running 1.0.6, what went wrong?

Cheers,

Larry

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Larry Spitz wrote:

> I wanted to upgrade from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7.
>
> There is no RPM available for RedHat 9.0, or at least I couldn't find
> one, so I downloaded from the Mozilla web site and followed the install
> instructions. All seemed to go well.
>
> However if I do Help->About Mozilla Firefox, here is what is says:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
> Firefox/1.0.6
>
> So did I upgrade? Is this message just wrong or confusing?
> If I am still running 1.0.6, what went wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Larry
Yes, it looks like you downloaded and installed 1.0.6.  Try this link:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...0.7/linux-i686/

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Larry Spitz wrote:
> I wanted to upgrade from 1.0.6 to 1.0.7.
>
> There is no RPM available for RedHat 9.0, or at least I couldn't find
> one, so I downloaded from the Mozilla web site and followed the install
> instructions. All seemed to go well.
>
> However if I do Help->About Mozilla Firefox, here is what is says:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716
> Firefox/1.0.6
>
> So did I upgrade? Is this message just wrong or confusing?
> If I am still running 1.0.6, what went wrong?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Larry

Since RH 9 is no longer supported, I would not expect an RPM.

I wonder if you now have both 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 installed, and your
shortcuts are opening 1.0.6.

Lee

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:37:57 -0800, gwtc wrote:

> Larry Spitz wrote:
> 
> Yes, it looks like you downloaded and installed 1.0.6.  Try this link:
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.o...0.7/linux-i686/

Though it looked the same as the last time. I re-downloaded 1.0.7 and instal
led.
I still get the same report from Help->About Mozilla Firefox.

Something really strange is going on here! (And it may well be all my
fault.)

Larry

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Larry Spitz wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:37:57 -0800, gwtc wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> Though it looked the same as the last time. I re-downloaded 1.0.7 and inst
alled.
> I still get the same report from Help->About Mozilla Firefox.
>
> Something really strange is going on here! (And it may well be all my
> fault.)
>
> Larry
Since you've reinstalled FF 1.0.7, there are two things to try.  Close
FF.  The first is to start the FF profile manager.  I don't know what
it is in linux, but in windows you would start on Run, and enter:

firefox.exe -p

This would bring up the profile manager.  Create a new profile. Start
FF with that profile.  Does the problem remain?

If no, then your other profile has a problem in it.  You can try the
next thing and see if that works.  Or, you can transfer your bookmarks
file to the new one and start all over.

If yes, then go to the next thing.

Next Thing: Close FF.  Then locate your profile and make a back up
copy of the file prefs.js and put it somewhere, just incase something
goes wrong you can put the back up file back.

Now, using a texted based editor, open the prefs.js file, the one in
your profile.  Now, do a search for useragent and delete all entries.
There are a few of them.  Save that file, and restart FF.  Does the
problem still happen?

If FF doesn't restart or something strange happens, put the copied
prefs.js file back and try again.

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