Installing Firefox on Mac

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing%20Firefox%20on%20Mac

Check and tell if its working.

Short answer: you have to eject the disk drive icon.

Hello and thank you for your help. I did eject it but it shows up again every time I open up Firefox. Do you know how to get rid of it permanently? Thank you again.

Hello, Thank you for your help. It was incredibly thorough. However it did not permanently solve the problem. It all appears on the desktop again every time I open up Firefox. Do you know how to stop that from happening? Thank you again.

Hi there,

I had exactly the same problem as you and it really annoyed me, so I started to do some experimenting,

Go to your desktop screen and eject the Firefox icon at the top (If you need to quit Firefox, then quit it first or a prompt will come up, either ways fine). Also, at the bottom of your dock get rid of the Firefox icon too (you just drag the icon up and it should disappear),

Then, type in "Applications" in the search bar on the top right of the corner of the screen, and click on your applications,

There should be that same Firefox driver icon there that was on your desktop, click on it (If there's one that says "Firefox Alias" or "Firefox 2" just ignore it. Go for the original one). It should take you into a sub folder with the Firefox dock icon (orange and blue ball) and an folder with no name in it,

Click on the orange and blue ball, and it should now appear in your dock,

Firefox should open without any application/driver icons appearing,

Move it around to where you want it to be positioned,

And just to double check, quit Firefox, and any other browser you have open, and click on the blue and orange icon again to see if any more drivers/application folders appear...

And that's it,

I hope it works for you :)