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loaded upgrade and it wont open/You cannot open the application “Firefox” because it is not supported on this architecture.

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downloaded your latest upgrade. Running on mac os 10.5.8 Power PC G5 dual 2 GHz 8 GB DDR SDRAM

downloaded your latest upgrade. Running on mac os 10.5.8 Power PC G5 dual 2 GHz 8 GB DDR SDRAM

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For an unofficial Firefox 4 compatible version (TenFourFox) that runs on PowerPC Macs with OS X 10.4.11 or OS X 10.5.8 you can look at:

Firefox 3.6.x (Mac OS X 10.4 and later) can be found here:

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For an unofficial Firefox 4 compatible version (TenFourFox) that runs on PowerPC Macs with OS X 10.4.11 or OS X 10.5.8 you can look at:

Firefox 3.6.x (Mac OS X 10.4 and later) can be found here:

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I suggest yo change you system requirements: This is what is advertised Operating Systems

   * Mac OS X 10.4 and later

Minimum Hardware

   * Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
   * 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
   * 200 MB hard drive space

Im running Model Name: Power Mac G5

 Model Identifier:	PowerMac7,2
 Processor Name:	PowerPC 970  (2.2)
 Processor Speed:	2 GHz
 Number Of CPUs:	2
 L2 Cache (per CPU):	512 KB
 Memory:	8 GB
 Bus Speed:	1 GHz
 Boot ROM Version:	5.0.7f0
 Serial Number (system):	CK347009QEB
 Hardware UUID:

SystemVersion 10.5.7 (121) This is way above your so called system requirements This has not solved the problem, but now forces me to use Safari

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From which page (link) did you copy those requirements?