using Mac OS 6.8.2 and lost firefox need to reinstall - How ?
Required by E-bay to upgrade firefox - Installed firefox upgrade and computer says upgrade will not work with my operating system (OS 6.8.2). How do I get back the firefox version that did work.
Thank You. Ron
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Whoops, eBay is not fully informed, obviously.
As you know: Firefox support has ended for Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
The last update for 10.6-10.8 was in the Extended Support Release of Firefox 45, in March. To install that version, you can download from this server:
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.9.0esr/mac/en-US/
Note: That's the U.S. English build. If you need a different language/locale, please click the .. link on that page, and then choose the desired folder. If you are not sure of your preferred locale, check the address bar while you're using this site and it should be in there just after .org/ in the address.
As a Windows person, I'm just saying these works and don't fully understand them: you should trash Firefox 57 (without removing any of your settings files) and then install the downloaded .dmg file. See: How to download and install Firefox on Mac. If you would like advice from a Mac user, stay tuned and hopefully someone will come along.
And it goes without saying that Firefox 45 has known vulnerabilities that expose your browser to potential attack... just like your OS.
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Whoops, eBay is not fully informed, obviously.
As you know: Firefox support has ended for Mac OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
The last update for 10.6-10.8 was in the Extended Support Release of Firefox 45, in March. To install that version, you can download from this server:
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/45.9.0esr/mac/en-US/
Note: That's the U.S. English build. If you need a different language/locale, please click the .. link on that page, and then choose the desired folder. If you are not sure of your preferred locale, check the address bar while you're using this site and it should be in there just after .org/ in the address.
As a Windows person, I'm just saying these works and don't fully understand them: you should trash Firefox 57 (without removing any of your settings files) and then install the downloaded .dmg file. See: How to download and install Firefox on Mac. If you would like advice from a Mac user, stay tuned and hopefully someone will come along.
And it goes without saying that Firefox 45 has known vulnerabilities that expose your browser to potential attack... just like your OS.
Was there a Mac OS 6.8.2? Must be prehistoric. In case this is actually Darwin 6.8 that you are mistakenly referring to as Mac OS 6.8.2, even Darwin 6.8 was the base for Mac OS 10.2.8 which was released in October 2003. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_10.2
Are you sure you have Mac OS 6.8.2?
Mac OS 6 was not even called Mac OS. It was just System Software 6, released in 1988 and succeeded by System Software 7 in 1991.
Hi Ajoy,
If you go to the original question and look to the right side, you'll see an item called "MORE SYSTEM DETAILS". Click on it to see the person's user-agent string (the browser they used to post the question). It says: User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/534.59.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.9 Safari/534.59.10
According to that, Ronsz is using OS X 10.6.8.
Assuming that the "10." was implied, where does the ".2" come from? I could not find any mention of a 10.6.8.x version.
In this case, it doesn't really matter. We're trying to help Ronsz, and we know he is on 10.6.8, which is no longer supported. Jscher2000's reply should answer the original question.