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i need firefox on cd rom

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I was given an old Mac desktop G4 (system reinstalled) with Internet Explorer 5.2 which is too old to display the download pages for Flash, Explorer, and FireFox... all I see are blank pages, some artwork, only a few working links, no way to download. Looking at the same pages on my PC tells me that the page displays on the Mac are all screwed up. Since I want FireFox as my browser I thought I might as well skip the upgrade of IE, which I can't do anyway without an IE CD, and just order FireFox on CD-ROM for Mac OS X v10.2.3 (from my PC). I don't see anywhere that offers a CD version (which I am willing to pay for). All I need is a way to order a version of FireFox on CD-ROM that will work on Mac OS X v10.2.3

I was given an old Mac desktop G4 (system reinstalled) with Internet Explorer 5.2 which is too old to display the download pages for Flash, Explorer, and FireFox... all I see are blank pages, some artwork, only a few working links, no way to download. Looking at the same pages on my PC tells me that the page displays on the Mac are all screwed up. Since I want FireFox as my browser I thought I might as well skip the upgrade of IE, which I can't do anyway without an IE CD, and just order FireFox on CD-ROM for Mac OS X v10.2.3 (from my PC). I don't see anywhere that offers a CD version (which I am willing to pay for). All I need is a way to order a version of FireFox on CD-ROM that will work on Mac OS X v10.2.3

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Actually Firefox 3.6.* will not work on the old Mac OSX 10.2.3

Firefox 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6 requires OSX 10.4 at minimum while Firefox 4.0 and newer requires OSX 10.5+

The last Firefox release to work on OSX 10.2.x was the old Firefox 2.0.0.20

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/mac/

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/mac/en-US/Firefox%202.0.0.20.dmg


http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.0/system-requirements/

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/2.0/system-requirements/


Also your Firefox version on Windows is behind on security updates (you have 3.6.7) as the current version for 3.6. is 3.6.24 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

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Actually Firefox 3.6.* will not work on the old Mac OSX 10.2.3

Firefox 3.0, 3.5 and 3.6 requires OSX 10.4 at minimum while Firefox 4.0 and newer requires OSX 10.5+

The last Firefox release to work on OSX 10.2.x was the old Firefox 2.0.0.20

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/mac/

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/mac/en-US/Firefox%202.0.0.20.dmg


http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.0/system-requirements/

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/2.0/system-requirements/


Also your Firefox version on Windows is behind on security updates (you have 3.6.7) as the current version for 3.6. is 3.6.24 http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

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Oops, I had missed that last part of the first post.

As for the OP's Firefox version: the user agent may be corrupted as we've seen a lot of those cases with an FBSMTWB (Fast Browser Search) in the user agent.

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7 GTB7.1 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C) FBSMTWB

See:

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Thanks everybody... James, I downloaded FireFox version 2.0.0.20, and before installing it I upgraded OS X from 10.2.3 to 10.2.5 - then installed FireFox 2.0.0.20. The OS upgrades didn't help to move to a newer FireFox, but guess it was a good idea anyway - OS X 10.2..6 wasn't available as a free download or I would have kept going until I hit the end of the road for my new old Mac.

Cor-el, I had started to act on your first post by downloading 3.6, then just happened to refresh my screen and saw Jame's post. Your second post didn't come until I had started with Jame's suggestion. Not so sure I understand what you were saying in the second post anyway... don't know what "OPs" is, and I'm hoping that my user agent isn't corrupted, whatever that is! Thanks.

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Actually you useragent is just stuck at Firefox 3.6.7 due to a extension adding the FBSMTWB on end, a issue that was fixed as of Firefox 4.0 and newer.

See the second or third link he mentioned on how to reset useragent to normal.

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James, we're not talking about the Mac with OS X anymore are we? Is this info about the user agent , Firefox 3.6.7 and the FBSMTWB in reference to the PC that I am accessing this forum with?

I haven't had any issues with my PC's Firefox, but then again I haven't upgraded it yet because my hard drive is partitioned, and the applications partition is almost out of room.

In reference to the PC (the Mac no longer an issue)... I will check out cor-el's third link to see if it has any possible future application for me. Thanks again.