I have MAC G5 Tower OSX 10.4.11. Receiving constant yellow dropdown banner message telling me to upgrade. Not Possible?
I have a G5 Tower OSX 10.4.11 and am constantly receiving the yellow banner asking me to upgrade Firefox. Of course, Firefox Mozilla knows that I cannot upgrade on this operating system. If there is a way, please inform. Otherwise, what are my options, other than get a new computer. Or, obviously, change back to Safari which failed at playing videos. And now, I cannot even play videos with Firefox linked on FaceBook to youTube.
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You can set the app.update.url to an empty string on the about:config page to prevent Firefox from searching for updates.
Firefox 4 and later require a Mac with an Intel processor and OS X 10.6 (Firefox 16 runs on OS X 10.5).
For an unofficial Firefox 17.0.2 ESR compatible version (TenFourFox) that runs on PowerPC Macs with OS X 10.4.11 or OS X 10.5.8 you can look at:
- http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
- http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/QuickTimeEnabler
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Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Gecko default plugin
- Runs Java applets using the latest installed versions of Java. For more information: Java Embedding Plugin. Run version test: Java Information.
- Java 1.3.1 Plug-in
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in, version 11.5.9
- Musicnotes Viewer plugin 1.19.0 http://www.musicnotes.com
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Shockwave Flash 10.1 r102
Application
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Firefox
Version
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Show in Finder
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about:buildconfig
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Helpful Reply
You can set the app.update.url to an empty string on the about:config page to prevent Firefox from searching for updates.
Firefox 4 and later require a Mac with an Intel processor and OS X 10.6 (Firefox 16 runs on OS X 10.5).
For an unofficial Firefox 17.0.2 ESR compatible version (TenFourFox) that runs on PowerPC Macs with OS X 10.4.11 or OS X 10.5.8 you can look at:
- http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
- http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/QuickTimeEnabler