[Linux-disciples] Mozilla-firebird and Mozilla

[Stephen R Laniel]

I just had Mozilla 1.2.1 open, and ran mozilla-firebird. What launched
instead of mozilla-firebird was another instance of Mozilla 1.2.1. If I
close all instances of Mozilla and run mozilla-firebird, the correct
executable launches.

Any idea why this happens? I thought maybe there was some funky
symlinking happening, so I whereis'd mozilla-firebird:

slaniel@JeffTweedy:~$ whereis mozilla-firebird
mozilla-firebird: /usr/bin/mozilla-firebird /etc/mozilla-firebird
/usr/lib/mozilla-firebird /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla-firebird.1.gz

In turn, we have
slaniel@JeffTweedy:/usr/bin$ ls mozilla-firebird
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           15 Oct 15 07:53 mozilla-firebird
-> MozillaFirebird

and then
slaniel@JeffTweedy:/usr/bin$ ls MozillaFirebird
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         6217 Oct  9 22:31 MozillaFirebird

A 6K executable for Firebird? Un-possible. Does anyone know what's going
on here? And does this explain why running mozilla-firebird invokes
another instance of Mozilla 1.2.1?

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