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Tried downloading Firefox 4 beta for Tiger 10.4. saved to applications but then Firefox would not open! Had to remove and re-laod Firefox 3.6.

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Is anyone having problems getting Firefox 4beta to work on Tiger?

This happened

Every time Firefox opened

Downloaded beta Firefox 4

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.16

Is anyone having problems getting Firefox 4beta to work on Tiger? == This happened == Every time Firefox opened == Downloaded beta Firefox 4 == == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.16

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click Firefox, no response, even crashed my laptop once.

same agent info

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Firefox Beta 4 is not compiled properly for Tiger, and refuses to start up because it expects a leopard library:

Symbol not found: _open$UNIX2003

 Referenced from: /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/libnspr4.dylib
 Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

A possible solution, posted somewhere on the net, is to pass this option on compile: -mmacosx-version-min=10.4

In addition to linking against the 10.4 sdk

Hope this helps!

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Would have appreciated if the system requirements were updated. It's saying it works on tiger but apparently, it does not work!

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please make the final version compatible with Tiger... there's still a big bunch of us still using the most stable OS ever.

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Agreed - many machines out there in use limited to Tiger OS / 10.4.

Please compile with flags set for 10.4 !!!!!

in interim, can the sys requirements be updated?

Best of luck and thanks for great job - running great on my Leopard PPC.

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Tiger please!!!

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Indeed please update the system requirements link which links to the current release version system requirements page (v3.6.6).

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b1/releasenotes/

And please, if at all possible compile for 10.4.11

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See: Bug 577256 – all-beta claims Firefox 4 is compatible with MacOS 10.4+, should say 10.5+ Bug 577290 – We need a system requirements page for ff4.0b1

(please do not comment in bug reports)

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+1 for 10.4.11 PPC support (for final, stable release)

edit: even though it looks grim https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577290#c3