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I am downloading firefox for first time on new macbook pro - has been downloading for 30 minutes and says there is 8 hours 45 minutes remaining - can this be right?

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I am trying to instal firefox for the first time to my new macbook pro - it has been downloading for over 30 minutes and says there is 10 hours 46 minutes remaining. Can this be right?

when trying to instal Firefox

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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

I am trying to instal firefox for the first time to my new macbook pro - it has been downloading for over 30 minutes and says there is 10 hours 46 minutes remaining. Can this be right? == when trying to instal Firefox == == User Agent == Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7

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cor-el
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How fast is your connection?

The DMG file for Mac is about 19 MB. It shouldn't take that long even with a slow dial-up connection.

See ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.6.3/mac/en-US/