[adiliegro]

I downloaded firefox and when the download finished, I had the drive on the desktop and a box opened up with the firefox icon in it. I clicked it thinking it would open the program, but nothing happened. I then saw my dock and the little firefox icon would jump once and dissappear and it kept doing that like ever other second. I tried to stop it, but to no avail. Wouldnt let me trash the box or eject the drive from the desktop. I then tried to force quit it, but an error came back and said that firefox cancelled the forcequit. I ended up having to cold shutdown by holding the button on the back of the machine.

Any thoughts on why this may have happened?

[icruise]

First of all, you'd get better responses if you posted this in the software forum with a better (more descriptive) title.

But I think you're supposed to copy the firefox application to your hard disk before opening it. I don't think that alone could cause the problem, but you might try it.

[emdash]

Agreed that this is in the wrong forum, but while we're here... This same thing happened to me! Eventually I found a way to force-quit it (I think I went into Process Manager or whatever it's called, waited for it to make its every-few-seconds appearance in the list, and killed it).

I gave up on it and haven't tried again. Sorry... no help here.

[pat++]

Got it too. It seems to be an issue with Firefox... not sure what exactly. Just copy Firefox on your harddisk before launching it.

[wataru]

If you had done a search before posting, you would have found that there are many threads about this topic.