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   Bit Twister to Adam   
   Re: OT: Off-Topic <- collective thanks a   
   23 Oct 12 05:35:53   
   
   From: BitTwister@mouse-potato.com   
      
   On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:12:11 -0400, Adam wrote:   
   > Bit Twister wrote:   
   >   
   > I put something similar in /home/adam/.bashrc .  Putting it in   
   > /etc/profile.d sounds better, though.   
      
   That does make it global for all users on the system.   
      
   >   
   >> Here you can see there is distribution's firefox in /usr/bin   
   >>   
   >> $ type -a firefox   
   >> firefox is /usr/local/bin/firefox   
   >> firefox is /usr/bin/firefox   
   >   
   > But if you (and I mean you in particular, not a general "you") are using   
   > Mozilla's latest version for your online activities, why is the distro's   
   > version installed at all?   
      
   Fallback if vendor copy is broke. If there is a bug, I want a second   
   opinion in the event I have to debug/report a problem.   
      
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