Application Not Supported on This Architecture
Hey,
I'm having problems opening applications I have downloaded. Whenever I open applications such as "Firefox" and "Minecraft", and others, an error message shows up with the following: "You cannot open the application "App Name" because it is not supported on this architecture."
This has started ever since I updated my iBook G4 1.2 GHz PowerPC G4 10.4.11 to 10.5.8. These applications worked fine before the update. I would think more applications would work, after the upgrade... Any help?
If the applications you were running under 10.4.11 were running in the classic environment, you lost that when upgrading to 10.5 Leopard. Otherwise, the latest Firefox version for the PowerPC is version 3.6 and is located here.
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I have manually dragged them over to my apps folder from my external hard drive which houses my previous operating system.
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MAC SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Intel® processor
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1024x768 resolution
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RECOMENDED system requirements:
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