How do I move Firefox 1.5 to my HD?

[question everything]

I downloaded it several weeks ago and there is a hard drive icon on my desktop as Firefox. I also dragged it to my hard drive but every time that I click on it it triggers Norton scan which, to me indicates that it is still in a form of an "outsider." I did not have any problem with the previous version of Firefox.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

[Richard Steele]

1. Maybe it's not you. I have 3 ideas you can try. (the first 2 are serious.)

1: Download it again, after making VERY certain that you are
on the REAL FireFox homepage, not a hacker-run mirror site
posing as the real thing. (That really does happen, you know)

Also, bear in mind that downloads can be garbled in transmission;
a single one or zero out of billions gets lost,
and suddenly the whole program is junk.
I download LOTS of stuff, and have found that "bad" programs
work fine about 50% of the time on the second try.
Download it again.

2: Disable Norton for a minute while you install FireFox.
Then turn Norton back on.
Even if Norton still cries foul, it might give you some
"ALERT" messages which would provide some insight into the problem.

3: My standard "Idea #3" requires a baseball bat and
a bank account large enough to purchase a new computer.
:argh:
Given the current state of the economy, #3 is generally regarded as a bad choice
for all but the most advanced users.

[question everything]

2. Thanks, will try 1 and 2

Normally it should just install itself on my hard drive.

I wonder whether the fact that my OS is a pre-panther - 10.2.8 may have something to do with this, though I do not remember having this jump in my face when I downloaded.

No. 3 is out of the question. This G4 Dual processor is only four years old. I know that wintels change new computer every couple of years but my former Mac, a Performa - lasted six years.. (and the SE, pre-online, lasted 9 years..)

[Richard Steele]

3. I'm using 10.2.8 myself, and the Firefox self-installed perfectly.

I'm on a single G4, not a dual, so we may perhaps have different issues
due to that.

And I would certainly never REALLY use Option #3 on a Mac...

My former Mac is an 11yo PowerMac 7500/90, and it's not
really "former" since it's sitting right here networked to
my iMac.
The iMac won't play a few of my old games,
or drive my old UMAX Vista scanner, so the
mighty 90mhz PowerMac still earns its keep.

[question everything]

4. Speaking of which - we watched An Inconvenient Truth yesterday

and it was nice to see Al Gore using a Mac laptop - PowerBook I would imagine - to prepare his PowerPoint presentation and to open so many photos, etc.

Just as Kerry, back in 2004, was pictured in front of a very wide Mac..

And my Performa is still here, too, but with an O.S. 8 it is just there. Spouse is using a G3 iBook.

[NoQuarter]

5. He used Keynote

http://www.apple.com/hotnews/articles/2006/05/inconvenienttruth/

[Wrinkle_In_Time]

6. Here you go...

The file that you downloaded is a Disk Image (.DMG) that contains the Firefox application. It's not an Installer per se. That's why it looks like a white hard drive. You have been running Firefox from within the Disk Image and Norton AV is set to scan whenever you mount (open) one of those.

People do this all the time with Firefox and MSN Messenger. I once saw a person running MSN Messenger from the Disk Image in her Trash. :+

Here's how to fix it:

1) Open that Disk Image file (you can tell NAV to skip the scan if you have already scanned this file, otherwise wait for that to finish).

2) Drag the Firefox icon out of that Disk Image and into your Applications folder. By the way, that's what that graphic on the Disk Image view is trying to show you: dragging the icon into your Applications folder.

3) Un-mount (eject) the Disk Image. You won't need it again unless you need to reinstall Firefox. Either Trash it or move it into another folder (e.g., create a folder in Documents called Installers and put it there).

4) If you already made a shortcut to the Disk-Image-Firefox on your Dock, remove it (drag it off the Dock and let go). If you want a shortcut to the properly-installed-Firefox, drag the Application icon to the Dock.