Firefox on the dock

I downloaded firefox onto my macbook pro and I turned off the computer when I was finished using it. When I turned it back on, both firefox and safari were missing from the doc. Now everytime I want to open either safari or firefox I have to go to the apple sign then to recent items. How do I keep both firefox and safari on the dock?

Hmm
Ah - When you double click the disk image it "mounts" on the desktop - so on the desktop you will have the .dmg file, and what looks like a disk drive with a slot - which is where Firefox was. You have to unmount the image by dragging that drive to the trash which will turn into an eject symbol. You can then delete the dmg disk image.
Alternatively, if you look in the finder - at the bar on the left you will see the disk image mounted like a drive and you can "eject" it from there.
Best of luck.

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Hello Chelleuri,
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
The following article provides information to trroublehshoot issues with installed apps, including not opening.
iOS: An app you installed unexpectedly quits, stops responding, or won’t open - Apple Support
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Perhaps you don't know how to bring icons into the Firefox Toolbar. You can put many things up there, including Bookmarks. You can also remove an icon or rearrange the order of icons.
From View>Toolbars>Customize
Here is the Bookmarks icon (next to the History icon) from which you can open all your bookmarks directly. And if you can remember a keyword, it will find that one, or any others that come up with that keyword. It's really quite convenient to use and will stay updated with any new bookmarks that are added.
This is showing the Bookmarks open, which can be closed by clickng on the small x.

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Firefox shows properly downloaded with 18.7 meg. I dragged from the download folder into the Applications folder. When I try to drag from the Apps folder to the Dock, Firefox will not stay in the dock but instead shows on the desktop. When I click on the Firefox logo on the desktop, a Firefox window appears, with no options to do anything.

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Your website has NO SUPPORT whatsoever and it has taken me a half hour clicking around to get to this portion where I can write what the issue is and no one will ever probably see this so whats the point. I guess I'm stuck with fucking safari now.
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Hello,
Sorry you are frustrated. If you have improvements you would like to make, you can file them to the [[Suggestion Box]] and the Firefox logo in the top left with upside down arrow is the Firefox button containing menu items. Try a clean reinstall as instructed below to see if it resolved your issue.
Certain Firefox problems can be solved by performing a ''Clean reinstall''. This means you remove Firefox program files and then reinstall Firefox. Please follow these steps:
'''Note:''' You might want to print these steps or view them in another browser.
#Download the latest Desktop version of Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org and save the setup file to your computer.
#After the download finishes, close all Firefox windows (click Exit from the Firefox or File menu).
#Delete the Firefox installation folder, which is located in one of these locations, by default:
#*'''Windows:'''
#**C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox
#**C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
#*'''Mac:''' Delete Firefox from the Applications folder.
#*'''Linux:''' If you installed Firefox with the distro-based package manager, you should use the same way to uninstall it - see [[Installing Firefox on Linux]]. If you downloaded and installed the binary package from the [http://www.mozilla.org/firefox#desktop Firefox download page], simply remove the folder ''firefox'' in your home directory.
#Now, go ahead and reinstall Firefox:
##Double-click the downloaded installation file and go through the steps of the installation wizard.
##Once the wizard is finished, choose to directly open Firefox after clicking the Finish button.
Please report back to see if this helped you!

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http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Mac_OS_X

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Thank you, thank you thank you. This has been driving me crazy forever. I have looked for answers online but never knew to write or that anyone would answer my post so never tried. Whoever you are may lots of good things happen for you because your good deed. Know good karma is coming your way. Just changed the firefox default setting in mailto in applications to my regular email. saves tons of time and much swearing.

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the second thing I am support to do is to drag firefox icon over to the A folder I can't do it not with a single click or a double click or just drag it over to A folder there is where I am stuck then from the A folder I should drag the the firefox icon down to the dock but I can't

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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac
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*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
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*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Mac_OS_X

I have managed to download Firefox - the first two steps apparently successfully but I cannot seem to drag the icon down to the dock. I use a mac mini. Thank you.

I have managed to download Firefox - the first two steps apparently successfully but I cannot seem to drag the icon down to the dock. I use a mac mini. Thank you
== This happened ==
Not sure how often
== not sure ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_7; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9

Make sure that Firefox gets installed properly.
Open the DMG file and drag to Firefox program to the application folder on your hard drive.
You shouldn't double-click the Firefox application to run it from the disk image, but drag it out of the DMG folder instead.
See [[Installing Firefox on Mac]]
See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Installing_Firefox#Mac_OS_X

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