Dreamweaver CS4 versus Firefox 3.6

Dear Sirs
I'm a Mac user working on Snow Leopard
I updated Firefox to 3.6 version and now I can't have the preview of my Dreamweaver html files in this browser version. The Mozilla stuff tells me that now the script shell inside Firefox has been removed so now Dreamweaver should point directly to firefox-bin.
Any suggestion to work it out or I better use Safari?
thx to you all in advance

In the FIrefox Mozilla Forum they said this:
In Firefox 3.6, we've removed the "firefox" shell script that lives  inside the app bundle. To launch Firefox, external applications now have  to call "firefox-bin" directly. If that's the cause of the problem, a  change will need to be made to Dreamweaver."
Source:
http://support.mozilla.com/de/forum/1/561015

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    I've been working with computers for a long time. And CS4 is THE WORST upgrade I've ever experienced.
    Attention Adobe - what are you going to do about all this? I want to go back to CS3!

    "I bought  Dreamweaver to make life easier. I don't want to learn to hand code. And  I don't want to waste days and days dealing with things that don't  work."
    How typical.
    Mac user - "I just got a new Mac (or application) and I can't wait to do all sorts of great things with it!"
    Linux user - "I just got a new Linux build (or system) and I can't wait to do all sorts of  great things with it!"
    PC user - "I just bought a new computer (or program) and it's going to  do all sorts of things for me!"
    or the opposite:
    PC user - "I just bought a new computer (or program) and it won't do anything for me!"
    Mac user - "I just got a new Mac (or application) and I still haven't learned everything I can do with it... yet."
    Linux user - "I just got a new Linux build (or system) and I still haven't learned everything I can do with it... yet."
    Dreamweaver is WYSIWYG software. What You See Is What You Get... It's not a cure-all, do-all, write-all, upload-and-test-all fix for people who want to be webmasters without any knowledge or effort on their part. There's a solution for that... hire someone to build your site(s) for you.
    If you're adamant about not learning code, you're in the wrong  business (or even hobby).
    It's like saying, "I want to commute across town, but I'll be damned if I'm going to learn to drive!"
    I've been doing this since 2004 and I'm still in school learning new technologies and practices.
    I'll climb down off my soapbox now.
    Edit: For the record, I built and inserted two flash animations last night. First one here, second one here.Neither of them took more than three clicks to add, and I fully tested each of them in no less than eleven browsers (Firefox, IE8, Opera, Safari, Netscape, AOL, iCab, OmniWeb, Camino, SeaMonkey, Chrome), offline, before uploading the index pages.
    Message was edited by: CowboyInAZ

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