Hi,
could someone in the forum please tell me in detIail howto remove mozilla installed from a PC.
Thank you.

Go to the usr/lib directory (as root) and delete the Mozilla directory. Also look in usr/bin and delete the binary. This applies to Linux. For widows use add/remove programs (as admin)

Thank you. after doing this, i installed a later version of mozilla. however, when i clicked the icon on the toolbar for mozilla, a message box popped up with a message:
"Cannot launch icon"
Details:Failed to execute child process "mozilla" (No such file or directory)

however if i change directory to /usr/local/mozilla and type ./mozilla &, the latest version opens up. (luckily, it also preserved the contents of the bookmarks!)
how do we resolve it, so the latest version of mozilla opens up?

It'd be nice to know what desktop/window manager you're using. If you tell me this, I'll be able to help you in more detail. However, one reason the icon would not work is that it points to the old version of mozilla. In both gnome and kde, you have to manually update the icon yourself. Try right-clicking on the icon to change its properties. Somewhere within the tabs it will tell you the path that it is executing when you click on it. Change that to the path of your new mozilla install.

Brian

my pc presently has gnome desktop. still not able to proceed further.
Thank you.

If you actually take the initiative and experiment with the suggestions you are given, you'll learn more here. Did you read past the first question of my previous post?

Anyway, more politely:

I have dropline gnome, not regular gnome installed on my system. I'm assuming that by on the task bar you mean that the icon is just that, on the task bar (and you're not talking about an icon in the application menu). Here are the directions for dropline gnome (quite possibly the same as for regular). Right click on the icon. Click on properties. Under the basic tab, you will see the command box. Erase whatever's in there. Replace it with /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla (or whatever).

Brian

yes, your message was well taken. however, the properties tab a box called "Command" which had the value:
mozilla %u

the installation did not set the path and it did not copy the mozilla binary to the standard locations
specified in the path.

echo $PATH gives me:
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/vraghavan/bin

so somehow my original mozilla was put in this path (for "mozilla %u" command to work.)

ordinarily one would expect the installation to take care of these things like setting the PATH.

somehow "mozilla %u" looks nice as the path info is somehow hidden.

current version of mozilla is in /usr/local/mozilla
Thank you.

So have you changed the command to the path of the new filename. Just change it to /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla (or whatever the command is to open mozilla inside /usr/local/mozilla. It doesn't need to be a "command" per se. It can be the path of an executable file.

Thank you, it works now. my apologies for replying late, as we no longer have internet connection in our house. (this message is posted from my friends house).