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i downloaded firefox to my mac os 10.5.8 and when i tried to install it, it said that it's not supported on my mac. The firefox icon has a slash thru it. Do i need an earlier version of ffox? or?????

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when i clicked downloads to install FF into my Apps folder, the FF icon has a circle and slash thru it. it said it's not supported by this architecture. I looked on "system requirm'ts" and my os ought to be supported...????

when i clicked downloads to install FF into my Apps folder, the FF icon has a circle and slash thru it. it said it's not supported by this architecture. I looked on "system requirm'ts" and my os ought to be supported...????

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Firefox 4 doesn't run on a PowerPC Mac.

Firefox 4 requires at least OS X 10.5 and an Intel Mac.

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: