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#Firefox for older mac os install#
#Firefox for older mac os full#

As a fairly new user to a Mac the following may help others, I removed FF before I started as mounting means that you have to double click the icon to install FF3.6. Applications/Firefox36.app/Content/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager I already have firefox 6 installed in the app files, should i uninstall it ? Or close firefox when running the terminal ? I dl the file, unzipped it, dragged it on desktop, renamed it, put it in applications file… The thing is it tells me that ther’s no such file or directory, after i pressed entry on the first line of code on terminal…. Hi, i’m afraid i can’t manage to make this work on OS Lion… but i’m a noob i’m afraid. Share this pageĮmail (not required) Website (not required) Comment Submit Select the icon in the topleft corner so that it is outlined and press Paste (Cmd-V). app by right-clicking and selecting ‘Get info’ or hitting Cmd-I. Open it in preview, select all (Cmd-A) and press copy (Cmd-C).

#Firefox for older mac os full#

Drag ‘Firefox 3.6’ application from the Applications folder to your dock for fast access.įor a nice icon to differentiate your current Firefox version with the old one get the full resolution PNG from above this article right here.Save the document to /Applications as ‘Firefox 3.6’.Open /Applications/Firefox36.app -args -P test In the content area (where ‘cat’ is displayed) copy-paste this line:.Drag ‘Run Shell Script’ to the action area.From the ‘Choose a type for your document’ menu, select ‘Application’. Applications/Firefox36.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -ProfileManager Run this command from a Terminal (found in /Applications/Utilities):.app to ‘Firefox36.app’ and move it to your /Applications folder

Drag the file from the DMG to your Desktop instead of to the Applications folder.

Download the Firefox 3.6 release from.

This should also work on Snow Leopard, provided you have at least 10.6.2, because the -args parameter was introduced in that version. Fortunately there are a few tricks you can use to make this happen.

There’s a problem here: Firefox doesn’t like it when two different versions are run side-by-side. Firefox 3.6 has a few bugs, and because of its big installed base you probably need to run some tests on it as well. However, there are still many people using the older 3.6 version of Firefox. Both Chrome and Firefox have a very fast release cycle, where new versions are released every six weeks or so. Most of the bugs you need to fix are probably in older versions of Internet Explorer. Cross-browser testing is pretty essential when developing web sites.