History of How to download and install Firefox on Mac

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Current   Chris Ilias added back keywords for mispellings
Approved M AliceWyman Related links: added default browser article
Approved   AliceWyman removed keywords, made "Related links" a heading
Approved M Abby moved related links to the bottom of the answer; simplified content; minor formatting changes for consistency; integrated some of the notes/callouts into main content
Unreviewed   AliceWyman System Requirements link added; moved update link back to Intro
Unreviewed   Chris Ilias removed keywords, simplified system requirements, and moved link to updating Firefox article as a final section
Approved   AliceWyman reworded bullet point "To update Firefox ..."
Approved M AliceWyman removed Apple Silicon note, updated warning
Approved M AliceWyman removed link to archived article
Approved   servesha 1. Using 'after' is more clearer than using 'once'
Approved   AliceWyman updated links to renamed articles
Approved M Fabi Warning update
Approved M AliceWyman updated Apple Silicon note for Firefox 84
Approved M AliceWyman edited Apple Silicon note for clarity
Approved M AliceWyman linkified Apple Silicon, Rosetta 2 (see discussion)
Approved M AliceWyman small edit to last revision
Approved M AliceWyman moved section about Apple Silicon compatibility, linked to fx83 release notes
Approved M Angela Lazar Add section about Apple Silicon compatibility
Approved M AliceWyman added "Download options and other languages" link
Approved M AliceWyman edit to search summary, updated link to renamed article
Approved M Princesslessness Small cosmetic changes (for example, macOS → OS X) and style improvements
Approved M AliceWyman updated link to renamed article
Approved M AliceWyman warning: linked to new article for macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11
Approved M Lan New images with current logo & MacOS 10.14
Approved M AliceWyman edited warning, other edits
Approved M Wesley Branton Added general warning
Reviewed M Raphael Raue Changing the download link to the new /firefox/mac/ url
Approved   tech53 Kept my grammatical revisions, but removed my note since it doesn't appear to be reliably working anymore on the new MacOS. It seems to work for some dmg files and not others, so who knows.
Reviewed M tech53 Adjusted the summary, added a note detailing an easier way to eject Firefox.dmg, and corrected some grammatical mistakes.
Approved M AliceWyman removed unneeded keywords
Approved M Lan Re-added language note (suggestion)
Approved M Joni removed downloads.mozilla link since this is already on the new firefox page. I've removed screenshot of download page as well since it now looks different and user testing shows that people click on the screenshot thinking it's a button.
Approved M Joni added source to URL so we can find out how many people are downloading from SUMO
Approved M AliceWyman removed links to articles for OS X 10.5 and below
Approved M AliceWyman Removed note with link to archived article. See discussion.
Approved M AliceWyman added back System Requirements link since Fx49 is released (see discussion)
Approved M AliceWyman updated system requirements warning (see discusson)
Reviewed M AliceWyman updated system requirements warning, linked to new article for OS X 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8
Approved M Simon Change in default browser dialogue. #2 Wording different.
Unreviewed   Simon Change in default browser dialogue.
Approved   Simon Security check updated to newer OS style.
Unreviewed   Simon Change in default browser.
Approved M AliceWyman edit to pending revision: choice of language only
Unreviewed   AliceWyman added link to Systems & Languages download page - see discussion
Approved M Ashickur Rahman update an image
Approved M Lan Updated download page and removed references to Firefox 16 since it's quite old (the link to a help article still exists). Someone else should check other screenshots
Approved M Lan Note for Windows and Linux
Approved   Artist grammar, format bold (suggestion)
Approved M AliceWyman note about "Firefox.app can't be opened" error with link to new article
Approved   user917725 removed Template:ShareArticle
Approved M scoobidiver maintained system requirements link
Approved M ideato link to Firefox 22 System Requirements
Approved M Joshua Smith Removed warning in search results to comply with the "Needs Changes" comment.
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta links to firefox 21 requirement
Approved M ideato link to Firefox 20 System Requirements
Approved M Michael Verdi updated system requirements link
Approved M ideato Latest Firefox 18 System Requirements
Approved M scoobidiver updated summary and warning, fixed links, added keywords
Approved M Swarnava Sengupta added the Share this article template
Approved M Michael Verdi added a period to the first sentence
Unreviewed   scoobidiver rewritten intro, new article about 10.4, remove ref to Fx 4, added keywords
Approved M Michael Verdi New screenshots, rewrote instructions as numbered steps, changed method of virtual disk ejection because the old way won't work in 10.7, added link to Firefox will not start
Approved M AliceWyman updated warning, added OS X 10.7, removed outdated image showing Firefox 3.6 download link
Reviewed   mluna Needs updates, see Discussion tab
Reviewed   mluna
Approved M Michael Verdi Fixed system requirements link and styled it as a warning. Added intro line and summary.
Unreviewed   Chris Ilias s/cmd/command (bug 523783)

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