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After downloading I don´t get an icon to drag into Application folder

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I am downloading Firefox onto a new MacBook Pro. Download is fine, but then I don´t get a Firefox icon to drag into the Applications folder. It looks more like a hard drive and will not stay in the Applications folder. What am I doing wrong - in simple language please?

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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10

I am downloading Firefox onto a new MacBook Pro. Download is fine, but then I don´t get a Firefox icon to drag into the Applications folder. It looks more like a hard drive and will not stay in the Applications folder. What am I doing wrong - in simple language please? == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Safari/531.21.10

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See: How to download and install Firefox on Mac http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Mac_OS_X