Stupid FF 3 question

[Stephen Ryan]

On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 10:54 -0400, David Berube wrote:
> OK, so I did an apt-get install firefox-3.0 on my Ubuntu machine. A 
> little "information box" thing said I needed to restart my browser, so I 
> did, but Firefox is still 2.x. I've also restarted my computer, and I 
> still have firefox 2.x. What am I doing wrong here? Should I just 
> download the tarball and unpack it whether Ubuntu wants it or what?
> 
> Take it easy,
> 
> David Berube

Try

$ dpkg -L firefox-3.0 | grep bin/

That should tell you what binary(ies) got installed by the firefox-3.0
package.  

On my Ubuntu 8.04 system, I have both firefox 2 and 3 installed, but 3
is the default; the firefox-2 package installs a binary
in /usr/bin/firefox-2; the firefox-3.0 package has both /usr/bin/firefox
and /usr/bin/firefox-3.0, so it may be that you have to invoke it as
"firefox-3.0" to make it work.
-- 
Stephen Ryan
Dartware, LLC