Firefox Legacy
Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model. New search UI improved and enabled for more locales. Access the Firefox Marketplace from the Tools menu and optional toolbar button. Built-in support for H264 (MP4) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and newer through native APIs. Improved handling of dynamic styling changes to increase. A modern version of Firefox modified to work on older Mac OS X versions, including 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, and 10.8 Mountain Lion. Parrotgeek.com This will work on Snow Leopard (I have the Lion version and it's working but I don't have a way to test the Snow Leopard version.).
Firefox Legacy is an unofficial modified version of Mozilla Firefox that works on older Mac OS X versions, including 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, and 10.8 Mountain Lion.
OldVersion.com Points System. When you upload software to oldversion.com you get rewarded by points. For every field that is filled out correctly, points will be rewarded, some fields are optional but the more you provide the more you will get rewarded! May 02, 2020 Mozilla today announced that it will end Firefox support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in August 2016. Unlike Google, which also dropped Windows XP. Half of all users run Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, while 59% run Firefox 3.6 on OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard. Apple fans still using the five-year-old Mac OS X 10.5 are being notified by Mozilla that Firefox 16 Final will mark the end of development for the Leopard operating system. That includes bugs.
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OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Current version for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: 71.0p2 (2020-09-15)
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT UPDATING TO v71: A new Firefox profile will be created when you update from earlier versions to version 71.0. To restore your previous data, type 'about:profiles' in the address bar, then find your previous profile (if you can't tell which, try each one) and set it as default. Then, restart Firefox Legacy. I apologize for the inconvenience; the cause of this issue is not known.
OS X 10.7 Lion
Current version for OS X 10.7 Lion: 68.12.0p3 (2021-01-24)
Now featuring support for numerous newer web standards, including Push, Service Workers, Feature Policy, ResizeObserver, Promise Rejection Events, more of the Animations API, and several CSS features. This should improve compatibility with many websites.
For security and privacy reasons, starting in version 68.12.0p3, support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1, HPKP, and the Battery API is disabled.
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Firefox For Mac
Only Firefox 52 is available for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard; it will not be updated to a recent version due to technical limitations of the OS.
Note: the program is called 'Nightly' due to licensing restrictions prohibiting the use of the official Firefox branding.
Current version for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: 52.9.1p1 (2020-04-11)
Firefox Legacy speaks your language!
Any of the language packs for the matching official Firefox version are supported.
Firefox For Mac Os
- List of language codes (to help you locate the right file to download)
Known Issues
- Small problems with displaying right-to-left languages on OS X 10.7
- The crash reporter does not work on OS X 10.7 or 10.8 (it itself crashes)
- A useless empty share menu is visible on OS X 10.7
- The sandbox (a security feature intended to protect you from malicious websites) does not work, and has been disabled
- On OS X 10.7, the browser crashes when the camera or microphone are used
- WebGL does not work on computers with GPUs not supporting OpenGL 3.0 (many 2006-2007 Macs)
- Some buttons are invisible on Google Calendar, WordPress, and other sites that use font-based icons
- DRM (Encrypted Media Extensions/Widevine) does not work
- Version 68.12.0 only: Screen capture does not work and has been disabled
- Version 71.0 only: The progress bar is not visible on the icons of downloading files in the Finder
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Mozilla today announced that it will end Firefox support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in August 2016. Unlike Google, which also dropped Windows XP and Vista support, Mozilla seems to be sticking to only removing support for old Macs.
This means Mozilla will provide regular Firefox updates and security patches for Mac users on these operating systems for four more months. After that, the browser will still work, but it will be stuck on the last version released in August.
Mozilla also offers a Firefox version called Extended Support Release (ESR) for schools, universities, businesses, and others who need help with mass deployments. Firefox ESR releases are maintained for one year, and so Mozilla will continue to support it on OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 “until mid-2017.” Firefox ESR 45 will be the last version that supports these old OS X versions.
Mozilla correctly notes that “all three of these versions are no longer supported by Apple” and that “unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and are dangerous for you to use.” If you want to continue getting Firefox updates, the company thus recommends upgrading your Mac.
It’s unfortunate that Mozilla is not doing the same with old Windows versions. Keep in mind that Microsoft retired Mainstream Support for Windows XP on April 14, 2009 and then pulled Extended Support for the operating system on April 8, 2014. Mozilla is thus going out of its way to support XP for additional years, even longer than Microsoft.
Windows XP users cannot upgrade to newer versions of Microsoft’s browser: IE8 is the latest version they can install. IE9 is only available for Windows Vista and Windows 7, while IE10 and IE11 are only for Windows 7 and Windows 8. Many XP users thus choose to use third-party browsers.
With Chrome no longer an option, many are likely going with Firefox.
Last month, XP still had about 11 percent market share, according to Net Applications. Vista had 1.41 percent market share, and the three old OS X versions had a combined 0.83 percent.
So if you’re wondering why exactly Mozilla keeps supporting Firefox on Windows XP and Vista, the numbers tell the real story. There are hundreds of millions using the browser on the ancient operating systems, and Mozilla would rather have those users than lose them.
But like Google before it, Mozilla is not helping these users by not encouraging them to upgrade. Even with an up-to-date browser, using Windows XP and Vista is simply a poor security choice.
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