I need Firefox help.

[La Coliniere]

I downloaded the Firefox browser for my eMac (OS 10) from the mozilla site. When I double clicked on the icon that appeared on my desktop MS Excel appeared with a lot of gibberish. I'm a numbskull when it comes to computers. What am I doing wrong? Any help is appreciated.

[peacebuzzard]

1. I am thinking of downloading Firefox also. I am no help.

But I am interested in the answer to your question. I also have a Mac w/ OS10 and the built in Safari, which does not do well w/ Air America. It is always buffering. Maybe if someone answers your question they can answer mine. I do not want anything to do w/ Real Player. It messed up my other laptop. Windows XP

[miss_kitty]

2. I know nothing of the eMac or OS 10. However

in PC world, uninstalling and reinstalling works often.

However, if it is still kicking you in the pants-try this forum:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=38&sid=587a0a620e6659e7f3df515c74f15993

I urge you to read the stickys, and post your system info and the FF version (1.0.6?) with which you are having trouble in your initial post. And make your subject line a little more descriptive when you post there (because everyone posting in that forum needs FF help), say: "Install on eMac OS10 brings up Excel gibberish" That will save PC people the trouble of clicking on your post. I didn't mind it 'cause this is DU. But sometimes, over there, they might get cranky.

Good Luck!
:hi:

[ezod]

3. I suspect that:

You may have clicked on the icon in the disc image.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/releases/1.0.6.html#othersystems

Mac OS X

Once you have downloaded the Firefox 1.0.6.dmg file, double click the Firefox Disk Image to open it in Finder, and then drag the Firefox application onto your hard disk. Drag the icon to your Dock if you want it to appear there.

For Firefox 1.0, double click the Firefox 1.0.dmg.gz Disk Image to uncompress and mount it. Your browser may have already done this for you. Double click the Firefox Disk Image to open it in Finder and drag the Firefox application onto your hard disk. Do not double click the icon in the disk image! Be sure to drag the Firefox application out of the disk image and onto your Hard Disk before running it. Drag the icon to your Dock if you want it to appear there.

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# Do NOT run Firefox from the Disk Image! - doing this will cause an infinite restart loop (the symptom of which is a Firefox icon that bounces briefly in the Dock then disappears and reappears, bounces and disappears, over and over). To break Firefox out of this loop, open a Terminal and type "killall firefox-bin" and press enter. Install Firefox to a location you have write access to and try again. When installing on a multi- user limited access system, install it into a shared location as administrator, run it once and then all users should be able to access it.
# If Firefox does not display a browser window, quit Firefox using Cmd+Q and open ~/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/<garble>.default/ and remove localstore.rdf. Restart Firefox. Any toolbar customizations you have made or window placement will be lost.

Hope this helps. A mac using friend of mine had weird issues initially with Firefox. He got squared away and LOVES Firefox now.