[karmic] Firefox 3 menu entry opens Firefox 3.5

[Caroline Ford]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

Upgraded from jaunty to karmic. I have two menu entries - Firefox Web Browser and Firefox Web Browser 3.0.

They both open Firefox 3.5.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Are you sure that the Firefox 3.0 opens Firefox 3.5?

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

See also Bug #438112 which is very similar and where I confirm that both entries open the newest Firefox.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This was confirmed with bug 438112.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i would think that you already have ffox 3.5 open if that happens. reason is that we share now profiles so firefox will open a new window/tab in any existing browser that uses the same profile. Please confirm that using firefox 3 link opens firefox 3 if no other browser window is open yet.

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Alexander, you are right. If no firefox is open, the 3.0 link opens Firefox 3.0.

My Problem in Bug 438112 was that I don't want to keep 3.0 after upgrading to 3.5 and never actively chose to keep it. Not sure if this belongs in this Bug or Bug 438112 should be de-duplicated.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

ok. this bug is wont fix then. The idea was that all firefox-3.0* packages are marked as automatically installed, which would allow them to be removed by update-manager. however, we found that there are bugs in gterminate and livecd installs that mark _all_ packages as manually installed.

So we will forcefully upgrade all firefox-3.0 users after beta by pushing transitional packages

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Question:

I still have firefox-3.0 installed, so apparently this "forceful upgrade" did not happen yet. Is it of any help in future testing if I leave the firefox-3.0 installed for now, or can I manually remove it already?