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Firefox said it was installing an update, then disappeared. Now my firefox icon produces Safari!

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vptaylor
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The 'update' did not require my permission, and I am suspicious. The firefox icon still appears in my applications folder, but when I click on it there it says my mac does not support this application. What the h...?

The 'update' did not require my permission, and I am suspicious. The firefox icon still appears in my applications folder, but when I click on it there it says my mac does not support this application. What the h...?

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cor-el
cor-el
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Firefox 4 and later require at least OS X 10.5 and a Mac with an Intel processor.

If you need to reinstall Firefox 3.6.x then you can find the latest Firefox release in all languages and for all Operating Systems here:

vptaylor
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Firefox 3.6 worked fine - why did it un-install, and why does the firefsx icon produce Safari??

philipp
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hello, updates were apparently wrongly offered to a subset of os x tiger users. the release team is working on a fix. sorry for that!

you can redownload version 3.6.28 for mac from the last link that cor-el has provided & install it again. afterwards please disable auto updates in preferences >advanced > updates.