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Irresponsibly, Mozilla gives NO WARNING that Macs without Intel can't run FF 4, so I downloaded it, can't figure out how to get 3.6 instead.

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GeogJoan
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Got an alert to upgrade from FF 3.6.13 (or 14? lots of such messages recently and I'm losing track). Did so successfully, but got a come-on to switch to FF 4. Haven't had trouble with it this week since I upgraded on my XP machine at work, so I figured I would.

Was there ANY warning about limited compatibility? No. Any option for maintaining 3.6 until I could confirm that 4.0 would work? No. So when I downloaded it, and got the familiar fox with an unfamiliar circle-with-slash symbol, it was a big surprise. When it wouldn't mount after 2-3 attempts, I dug around: Macs must be running Intel processors. I'm running 10.5.8 (which ought to work) with a PowerPC G4 processor. So I need to be able to download the latest 3.6. There must be a place to do it, but I can't dig it out of my history because my 3.6 is gone and that's where that history was. PLEASE tell me where I can find 3.6 downloads!

Got an alert to upgrade from FF 3.6.13 (or 14? lots of such messages recently and I'm losing track). Did so successfully, but got a come-on to switch to FF 4. Haven't had trouble with it this week since I upgraded on my XP machine at work, so I figured I would. Was there ANY warning about limited compatibility? No. Any option for maintaining 3.6 until I could confirm that 4.0 would work? No. So when I downloaded it, and got the familiar fox with an unfamiliar circle-with-slash symbol, it was a big surprise. When it wouldn't mount after 2-3 attempts, I dug around: Macs must be running Intel processors. I'm running 10.5.8 (which ought to work) with a PowerPC G4 processor. So I need to be able to download the latest 3.6. There must be a place to do it, but I can't dig it out of my history because my 3.6 is gone and that's where that history was. PLEASE tell me where I can find 3.6 downloads!

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TonyE
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There is a third party version of Firefox 4 that runs on OS X 10.4/10.5 and PPC Macs, for details see http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox

If you prefer, you can get the latest version of Firefox 3.6 from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html