The silly mess with Firefox 1.5.0.4's Flash plugin

[fredex]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 06:22:02PM +0300, Heikki Pesonen wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> >Heikki, where is firefox installed on your system?  Was it installed
> >via yum/rpm or from a mozilla.org tar.gz?
> 
> 
> What I have read about Linux from some books, I'll suppose Firefox were in
> the foulder /usr/bin but there is nothing. I can not find it in any other
> place. By the way, should there not be some tool in Fedora Core 5 like
> "Find" in Windows? In some Linux journals a nice domestic animal Beagle is
> praised. Why is it not included in Fedora Core 5?

There are several ways to find a file:
1. "which firefox" will tell you where the firefox program is that would 
be executed if you  typed "firefox" at a command prompt. If it returns
nothing, then there is no executable by that name in your search path.
2. "locate firefox" will return every file/directory/link name it finds
containing the string "firefox". This uses an index of your filesystems
that is build every night by a "cron job". If the file you're looking
for has been added (or deleted or moved) since that cron job ran, you
won't find it, or won't find it where locate says it is.
3. the slowest but most sure way is "find / -name firefox -print" which
scans, while you wait, the entire  hard drive looking for a file named
"firefox". Note that it won't find "firefox.bin" or anything else that is
not exactly "firefox".
4. there may be others, but these are the ones I use.

> 
> I installed Fedora Core 5 from a DVD which was included in some number of
> Linux Format (a journal).

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