You might try just routing your paths to use the other firefox:
export PATH=/opt/firefox:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/firefox:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
that way, the stuff in /opt will get used preferentially.
Since you want the one that was installed by apt-get, you can feel free
to blow-away firefox with reckless abandon, since you can always use
apt-get to re-install the version that you really want.
--ronan
>
> eben@pc:~$ du -sh /usr/lib/firefox/ /opt/firefox/
> 20M /usr/lib/firefox/
> 22M /opt/firefox/
>
> What would I lose if I did "rm -r /usr/lib/firefox/"? Actually, I
> might try "mv /usr/lib/firefox /usr/lib/firefox.old" and see how that
> goes first.
>
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