/usr/bin/firefox and a diversion, wtf?

Thorsten Glaser t.glaser at tarent.de
Tue May 7 07:36:04 UTC 2013


On Mon, 6 May 2013, Mike Hommey wrote:

> If you install a "firefox" package that provides "/usr/bin/firefox",
> the diversion and the firefox script provided by iceweasel will
> make things work. That is: if you install firefox, firefox is firefox,

Put the first three words into quotes, I guess ;-)

> if you don't, firefox is iceweasel.

OK, thanks for the explanation. His problem is from firefox
not being iceweasel but a wrapper script that calls iceweasel,
since they’re using Selenium. I told him that things WFM
though, and that he can just tell Selenium to call iceweasel
too.

bye,
//mirabilos
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