This article applies to the Private Practice Suite
The following are instructions for installing Firefox ESR Version 52 on a MAC OS. If Firefox is already installed on your computer it is important that you follow the steps detailed in Preventing Auto Updates Firefox-Advanced before uninstalling Firefox. If you have already completed those steps or this is your first time installing Firefox onto your computer, follow these steps:
Note: If you have Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you will need to download OS X El Capitan before you can upgrade to the latest Mac OS. While insecure versions of Firefox will continue to work on OS X 10.8 and earlier, using an up-to-date version of Firefox on a supported version of Mac OS will provide you with the best and safest. We're not only compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, but we also build our browser specially optimized for your G3, G4 or G5, add AltiVec TM JPEG, HTML and WebM decoding acceleration for G4 and G5 Macintoshes, and soup up JavaScript performance with IonPower, our best-in-class just-in-time PowerPC script compiler. One of our four versions is.
To Uninstall Firefox:
- Click Go and select Applications from the drop-down list
- From the Applications folder, find the Firefoxapplication, click on firefox.app and drag it to the Trash on your Dock
To Install Firefox on your computer:
- Click the download link for Mac to get Firefox Version 52.8.0 ESR here
- The file will be downloaded in the 'Downloads' folder, open the folder and click on the downloaded file
- When prompted, Click and drag the Firefox Icon into the folder
On June 30th, macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).
While Apple doesn’t have an official policy governing security updates for older macOS releases, their ongoing practice has been to support the most recent three releases (i.e. version N, N-1, and N-2). The last security update applicable to macOS 10.11 was made available nearly 2 years ago in July 2018 (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222). Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and can be dangerous to use, which makes it difficult and less than optimal to maintain Firefox for those versions.
Users do not need to take additional action to receive those updates. On June 30th, these macOS users will automatically be moved to the ESR channel through application update.
In the meantime, we strongly encourage our users to upgrade to mac OS X 10.12 or higher to benefit from the security and privacy updates.
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For more information please visit the Firefox support page.