- There is no Firefox support for Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8. Firefox Editions Beta. The Beta version is unstable, and the platform is still in the testing and development phase and sends data to Firefox about any issues encountered. Be the first to check out the features of the next-generation web browser.
- If you need a rollback of Firefox, check out the app's version history on Uptodown. It includes all the file versions available to download off Uptodown for that app. Download rollbacks of Firefox for Mac. Any version of Firefox distributed on Uptodown is completely virus-free and free to download at no cost.
The AFP Server and the Open Directory master server is running Mac OS X Server 10.62 with the newest security patch. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Firefox 3.57 worked perfectly fine on these systems.
On August 2, 2016, Firefox 48.0 was released. It is scheduled to be replaced by Firefox 49.0 on September 13, 2016. At that point, Mac users using OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, and 10.8 Mountain Lion will be left behind by the current versions of Firefox. It will be a sad day, as Firefox is the last major browser to support Mac OS X 10.6 through 10.8.
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But it's not all bad news. Firefox has given us Mac support longer than Google's Chrome browser, which left us behind in April 2016. And in comparison to Apple's Safari browser, Chrome and Firefox have been downright generous. Safari 5.1.10 was the last version for OS X 10.6, and that arrived on September 12, 2013. Safari 6.1.6, the final revision for OS X 10.7, was unleashed on August 13, 2014, and 6.2.8, the last version for OS X 10.8, a year later on August 13, 2015.
Chrome gave Snow Leopard users 2-1/2 years more support than Apple did, Lion users 20 months more, and Mountain Lion 8 months. When Firefox 49.0 arrives, Snow Leopard users will have had 3 years more support by Firefox than Safari gave them. Lion users, 25 months, and Mountain Lion holdouts, 13 months.
Outdated Does Not Mean Obsolete
Fear mongers will insist on running the latest version of browser on a fully up-to-date operating system with the belief that anything else puts you at risk. The truth is, there are unknown risks in the latest software. You can never be 100% secure.
However, you can be very productive with older operating systems, applications, and browsers. Just because some new piece of software requires a newer OS version is no reason to upgrade – unless it gives you a feature you really need to have. I have been happily working with OS X 10.6 on my 2007 Mac mini for years. I use Safari, Chrome, and Firefox daily on it, and only one of them is current – and not for much longer.
Then again, OS X Snow Leopard itself is far from current, yet it allows me to run lots of software and be very productive. I don't find it limiting at all to use outdated software with an outdated operating system on a discontinued computer that will never run OS X 10.8 or newer. It's good enough for what I need it to do.
Honestly, that's the whole point of Low End Mac. You can be productive even if you can't run the latest Mac OS and browser. After all, there was a time when they had nothing newer to use, and they were productive then.
The Real World
Security experts will count out hundreds or thousands of security issues with whatever you're doing on your computer, and none of it matters until someone targets that issue in a way that reaches your machine. That's the real world. Theoretical security problems are not real until they become exploits, and even then the problem might never reach your system if you're not downloading apps from unreliable sources.
Further Reading
- Mozilla Will Retire Firefox Support for OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 in August 2016, VentureBeat, 2016.04.29
- Google Chrome Leaving OS X 10.6 through 10.8 Behind in April, Low End Mac, 2016.03.05
- Apple Signals End to OS X Snow Leopard Support, Computerworld, 2013.12.07
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From MozillaZine Knowledge Base
This article will help you install Firefox on your system. Once Firefox is installed, the Software Update feature provides for automatic download and installation of future Firefox updates (see the linked article for details).
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All Systems
Download the Firefox installer from mozilla.org or go to this page to choose the full installer for your language and OS. System requirements for the current version of Firefox are listed here. If your computer doesn't meet those requirements, you can download a previous Firefox version from the CDN server. System requirements for Firefox 3.6 are listed here.
If you install Firefox on a multi-user system where access privileges are restricted, you must run Firefox as a user with access to that location upon installation so that all initial startup files are generated.
Note: In most cases, you can install a newer version of Firefox over an existing version [1]. If you prefer a clean install, Uninstall your current Firefox version and delete the installation directory before launching the Firefox installer.
Windows
Using any browser, download the Firefox setup file to your desktop or other location. After the download is complete, exit Firefox completely (if open). Double-click the downloaded setup file to launch the installer. See the article Installing Firefox on Windows for detailed information, including Standard and Custom setup and screen images.
If you have problems with the Firefox installation, do the following:
- Re-download the Firefox setup file if you receive the message, 7-Zip Unspecified Error
- Open the Windows Temp folder
- Windows XP: Start -> Run -> Type %temp% -> OK
- Windows Vista and above: Start -> Type %temp% in the Search box -> press Enter
- Select all files and folders in the Temp folder and delete them, then close the Temp folder window.
- Make sure Firefox is not running and that no instance of 'firefox.exe' appears in the Windows Task Manager
- Disable your antivirus program and try again.
Linux
Note: the article, Moving from Windows to Linux includes installation alternatives.
First, download the latest release to your home directory with your browser or download manager.
Next, extract the contents with an archiving utility such as Ark or tar.
Now you must select the installation directory. If you are the only user, the extracted files could stay where they are, but If this is a multi-user system, the firefox directory must be moved to a publicly accessible location such as /usr/local or /opt.
The installation is more or less complete, but it's recommended that the firefox script be available somewhere in your path to avoid the inconvenience of having to enter the full path. This can be accomplished by creating a symbolic link in the relative 'bin' directory.
For the personal installation:
Or the mult-user installation (as root):
Many Linux distributions already include /usr/local/bin and ~/bin in their global environment variable path, which can easily be verified by running 'firefox' from the shell or the desktop environment's (run) menu. If execution fails (command not found), you can adjust the path by appending '/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin' to the existing PATH variable in /etc/profile and/or /etc/bashrc.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X system requirements for the current version of Firefox are listed here.
Binhex 4.0 converter app. Found 2 file extension associations related to BinHex 4.0 and 2 file formats developed specifically for use with BinHex 4.0. Platform, operating system: Apple macOS / Mac OS X. Go to: BinHex 4.0 description. Developer: Yves Lempereur. MacBinary files were thus much smaller than BinHex. Lempereur released BinHex 5.0, almost identical to 4.0 with the exception that it used MacBinary to combine the forks before running the 8-to-6 encoding, but it saw little use, as he expected. However, on the Internet, e-mail was. While BinHex 4.0 is used for encoding in HQX files, RLE is used for the compression. What makes HQX files predestined for file downloads on the internet or sending e-mail attachments is the fact that they couple combine both data and resource fork of the Mac file system to form only one archive.
- Firefox 4 and above requires at least Mac OS X 10.5 and will only run on an Intel Mac.[2] Mac OS X 10.4 users, and 10.5 users with a PPC Mac, can download the latest Firefox 3.6.xx release version for Mac OS, currently available from here or from the Mozilla CDN site (Firefox 3.6 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or above). Another option is TenFourMac, which is based on Mozilla 2.0 and Firefox 4 code.
- Firefox 3 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or above. Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.2 users can download Firefox 2.0.0.20 (en-US is US English).
The images shown on the right illustrate, in step-by-step detail, how to install Firefox on Mac OS X systems, using the installer file 'Firefox 2.0.dmg' as an example.
Mac Os X 10.6.3 Download
Download the Firefox .dmg (disk image) file to the desktop.
Double click the downloaded file to open (mount) it.
This creates a 'mounted disk' image icon on the desktop and opens a disk-image folder window containing the Firefox application icon.
Note: If you get a 'disk image failed to mount' warning, read this forum topic for a possible solution. If you can't launch any dmg files you likely have corrupted launch service cache files. You can go here to get information for different OS X versions. [3]
Drag the Firefox application icon to a Hard Disk location such as the Applications folder
Mac Os 10.6 Full Version
Close the disk-image folder window.
Install Mac Os X
Important: Be sure to drag the Firefox application out of the opened disk image window and onto your Hard Disk before running it.
Do not double click the Firefox icon in the disk image!
To start Firefox, double-click the Firefox icon in the Applications folder.
After doing all of the above, select the mounted disk image by clicking it once.
Next, from the File menu, select Eject 'Firefox'. Alternately, you can control-click the mounted disk image icon and choose 'Eject'.
Finally, drag the .dmg file to the trash (unless you want to keep the .dmg file as a backup). [4]
If you wish, you can create an alias of the Firefox icon in the Applications folder and place the alias on the desktop, so that you can quickly start Firefox by using the desktop alias.
See also
The installation is more or less complete, but it's recommended that the firefox script be available somewhere in your path to avoid the inconvenience of having to enter the full path. This can be accomplished by creating a symbolic link in the relative 'bin' directory.
For the personal installation:
Or the mult-user installation (as root):
Many Linux distributions already include /usr/local/bin and ~/bin in their global environment variable path, which can easily be verified by running 'firefox' from the shell or the desktop environment's (run) menu. If execution fails (command not found), you can adjust the path by appending '/usr/local/bin:$HOME/bin' to the existing PATH variable in /etc/profile and/or /etc/bashrc.
Mac OS X
Mac OS X system requirements for the current version of Firefox are listed here.
Binhex 4.0 converter app. Found 2 file extension associations related to BinHex 4.0 and 2 file formats developed specifically for use with BinHex 4.0. Platform, operating system: Apple macOS / Mac OS X. Go to: BinHex 4.0 description. Developer: Yves Lempereur. MacBinary files were thus much smaller than BinHex. Lempereur released BinHex 5.0, almost identical to 4.0 with the exception that it used MacBinary to combine the forks before running the 8-to-6 encoding, but it saw little use, as he expected. However, on the Internet, e-mail was. While BinHex 4.0 is used for encoding in HQX files, RLE is used for the compression. What makes HQX files predestined for file downloads on the internet or sending e-mail attachments is the fact that they couple combine both data and resource fork of the Mac file system to form only one archive.
- Firefox 4 and above requires at least Mac OS X 10.5 and will only run on an Intel Mac.[2] Mac OS X 10.4 users, and 10.5 users with a PPC Mac, can download the latest Firefox 3.6.xx release version for Mac OS, currently available from here or from the Mozilla CDN site (Firefox 3.6 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or above). Another option is TenFourMac, which is based on Mozilla 2.0 and Firefox 4 code.
- Firefox 3 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or above. Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.2 users can download Firefox 2.0.0.20 (en-US is US English).
The images shown on the right illustrate, in step-by-step detail, how to install Firefox on Mac OS X systems, using the installer file 'Firefox 2.0.dmg' as an example.
Mac Os X 10.6.3 Download
Download the Firefox .dmg (disk image) file to the desktop.
Double click the downloaded file to open (mount) it.
This creates a 'mounted disk' image icon on the desktop and opens a disk-image folder window containing the Firefox application icon.
Note: If you get a 'disk image failed to mount' warning, read this forum topic for a possible solution. If you can't launch any dmg files you likely have corrupted launch service cache files. You can go here to get information for different OS X versions. [3]
Drag the Firefox application icon to a Hard Disk location such as the Applications folder
Mac Os 10.6 Full Version
Close the disk-image folder window.
Install Mac Os X
Important: Be sure to drag the Firefox application out of the opened disk image window and onto your Hard Disk before running it.
Do not double click the Firefox icon in the disk image!
To start Firefox, double-click the Firefox icon in the Applications folder.
After doing all of the above, select the mounted disk image by clicking it once.
Next, from the File menu, select Eject 'Firefox'. Alternately, you can control-click the mounted disk image icon and choose 'Eject'.
Finally, drag the .dmg file to the trash (unless you want to keep the .dmg file as a backup). [4]
If you wish, you can create an alias of the Firefox icon in the Applications folder and place the alias on the desktop, so that you can quickly start Firefox by using the desktop alias.
See also
External links
- Installing Firefox (Firefox Support)
