Firefox shows up as a drive in devices column

I just purchased a mac mini and loaded firefox as my default brouser. My question is why does firefox show up in my devices column like a hard drive when I launch it?

Because it's being launched directly from the mounted dmg file and not the Applications folder(drag it there).
(68461)

Similar Messages

Why does Firefox show up as a drive?

I'm still new to Mac so please explain this to me as easily as you can. So i just installed Firefox then i dragged the icon to the bar on the bottom of the screen. But when I want to use Firefox it appears as a drive on the desktop. It does this when i open Windows Messenger for Mac too but I don't know what to do to make it not appear as a drive. Please help.

Hi Roboman,
Open the .dmg file containing the Firefox installer (the .dmg is the file you downloaded from Mozilla's webpage) - the drive image will mount on your Desktop. Drag the Firefox icon here into your Macintosh HD > Applications folder.
Trash the Firefox icon currently sitting in your Dock (click and drag to the Trash) and open Firefox from your Applications folder.
It sounds like the shortcut currently sitting in your Dock is currently linked to the Firefox installer inside the downloaded disk image - this is why it could be appearing as a drive on the Desktop. The .dmg needs to mount the drive image in order to run Firefox the way you currently have it set.
Hope this helps,
Steve

Why does Firefox show as an external drive on my Mac when I download.

When I download Firefox using the 3 step guide for my Mac, the icon is shown as an external drive and not the usual Firefox icon. I drag it into the Apps folder as suggested, but when I try to follow the next steps to place in the dock it will not do it. I try clicking on the icon to open firefox but nothing works. Can you help? Operating system Mac 0S10 .4
== I tried to download Firefox for the first time ==
== User Agent ==
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/533.16 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/533.16

Hi.
Thanks for getting back to me.... You are right I missed the bit where you have to drag the icon across on the display that pops up. It is not clear that you have to do this. I was dragging the dmg file from the desktop into my Apps folder which was the mistake. All good now and Firefox is working nicely. Thanks
Bernie

Multiple devices showing in iTunes when only one device is plugged in

How come multiple devices show up in iTunes left-hand DEVICES column when I plug in only one device? When I plug in my iPhone, two of the same devices by the same name show up in the left hand column within iTunes, ALONG with two other iPhones in our family. Can anyone offer insight please? Thank you in advance!

You may have enabled wifi sync on your iPhone.

Firefox shows my phone twice in Tabs From Other Devices

As you can see here: http://yannbane.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screenshot-23.12.2013-150209.png, Firefox shows my Galaxy S 3 phone TWICE.
Why does this happen?
Can I reset it, to only show the device once?

Yannbane,
Please file a Bug report about that issue. I suspect that Sync is synchronizing some data twice to your desktop / laptop device.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ <br />
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Bug_writing_guidelines
Make sure you add that image as an attachment to your Bug report.

Apple Mobile Device USB Driver shows up with an ! in Device Manager (Windows 8)

When trying to sync my iPhone 5C with iTunes for Windows 8, the device is not recognised on the software. I have checked that my devices are up to date and uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled 'Apple Mobile Device USB Driver' in Device Manager, yet it continues to come up with an '!' next to it, and when checking the properties it states "This device cannot start. (Code 10) The specified request is not a valid operation for the target device." How do I fix this problem?

Hi, acxdunicorn.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
If your device is not recognized by iTunes, I would recommend the steps in the article below. Start with the section labeled Verify that the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is installed > For Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 > If the Apple Mobile Device USB Driver is not listed.
iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch not recognized in iTunes for Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1538
Cheers,
Jason H.

Firefox shows the saved password to all... i want a privacy for this saved password..

Firefox shows the saved password to all... i want a privacy for this saved password..
the master password what they r giving is not at all useful... it is not used for the saved password..
Please give a master password to get access for the saved password...
If any body others comes and sees the saved password in the system they can easily see the saved password....
== Operating system ==
XP

If you use a Master Password then your passwords can only be accessed after you have supplied that MP during a session.
You will be prompted to enter the MP the first time it is needed in a session.
You can logout from the Software Security Device (e.g. click Cancel in the "Show Passwords" dialog) to force re-entering the MP once again.
Tools > Options > Advanced > Encryption: Certificates > Security Devices: Software Security Device: Log Out
See:
[[Protecting stored passwords using a master password]]
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Master_password

Can't get Solaris 8 to show my second hard drive.

I installed Sol8 on a 1 hard drive intel machine (as the only OS, no windows). Later, I added a second hard drive, and after running the device config assistant (DCA) still doesn't show it in the list of drives under the 'format' command.
Physically, the new hard drive is using middle IDE plug on my IDE 0, original drive is plugged in on the end of IDE 0. The new hard drive is jumperred to slave, original was orignially set for single, that didn't work so I tried jumperring that one to master, no change in results. On IDE 1 I have a cd-rom on the end plug, originally with no jumper, then added jumper for master (middle plug is empty).
In the BIOS, the second drive was detected with the right number of heads, cyl, etc. It calls it my D drive.
I can get to certain screens in DCA to show me the second drive (only in respect to which drive should boot the kernal - I don't want to install the OS on the second drive, I just want it for extra storage).
Am I missing a step, or am I not installing the hard drive correctly? After DCA and reboot, it still only gives me a choice of my origial drive for 'format', and only shows one drive in the SMC.
I don't know what is on the new drive (it was pulled from another PC).

I have the same problem on x86 Solaris 10 that the format command cannot show my second hard drive, the master and slave hard disk are attached through one single cable and Solaris 10 is intalled in the master disk. I tried devfsadm -v but it still doesn't work, do you have any other way to do that? Thank you for any help.

Nikon P7000 does not show up as a drive in Finder

When I plug in any of my cameras or other devices, they all show up as a drive in finder, except for my Nikon Coolpix P7000 camera. Only Aperture and iPhoto can see the files on it. If I shoot a movie on it, I can't get it into iMovie or FCE without first copying it from iPhoto.
Anyway to make this camera show up as a drive so that I can move and copy its files directly without using a card reader?

I'm not going to ask how old.
I have a P300 as well as the D7000 that shot movies and I just import it from the camera to a folder of my choosing and then open up the app that I want to import it to, since there are a few apps out there you could use,Nikon included.
You should'nt have to remove the card since I use a USB cable on both mine.
Times change fast with computers and hardware. Gotta keep up or you get left behind.
Message was edited by: worksafe

(ios5 ipad bugs)I can't get changes of album art, artist, album and other tags to show up in the iPad music player, but they show up correctly in the iTunes device view. Certain random songs do not sync correctly. Wifi sync hasn't worked yet.

(ios5 ipad bugs)I can't get changes of album art, artist, album and other tags to show up in the iPad music player, but they show up correctly in the iTunes device view. Certain random songs do not sync correctly. Wifi sync hasn't worked yet.
I mostly use technology for education and professional audiovisuals and lights.
I don't sync music because I use music from at least 4 different computers. (manually mange music)
I use my iPad to play performance tracks for church and a local gospel group out of our church, Won4Christ.
I chose to buy the iPad because the laptop of one of the group members (dellxps running iTunes) was randomly losing and mixing up music and I wanted a more stable option that was bigger than my iPod touch.
I tried to add some data to music libraries that I previously added to my iPad, but the data only shows up when looking at the device in iTunes.
Wifi sync has not worked on either my laptop or desktop ( both running windows 7 enterprise 64 and newest iTunes) not really a big issue, but very annoying
When browsing through library playlist albums on the iPad, random artwork shows up on playlists with no artwork that you touch while dragging, and it does not go away until you change to another navigation tab and back.
Random songs out of hundreds that I added showed up in iTunes grayed out with a sync circle beside them. Those songs would play back okay on the iPad but were unplayable through the iTunes device view. I had to delete the songs manually through the library along with the playlist and add them again.
These seem to be major stability bugs in the "new" music app and iTunes. My only option right now seems to be to delete the songs that I want to change and re-add them with the changes already applied rather than changing the id3 tags and artwork on the existing music. I hope apple will release updates to resolve these issues.
Thank you for actually making it to the end of this manuscript of annoyances.

Just wondered if anyone had any other suggestions.

How do I get received messages from others to show up on my different Apple devices, such as my iPhone

How do I get received messages from others to show up on my different Apple devices, such as my iPhone or iPad or iPod Touch, etc. I can see their reply on the device I was using at that moment but not on the other devices even iMessaging is turned on. Is there a way to refresh to incoming messages when one picks up one of their other Apple devices?

Hi there lkbluntzer,
You may find the information in the article below helpful.
Send and receive messages
http://help.apple.com/iphone/7/#/iph01ac18d71
See what time a message was sent or received. Drag any bubble to the left.
-Griff W.

How can I get my old iTunes music onto my new computer without access to my old computer? I left my previous job and forgot to transfer my music. I bought iTunes match and it shows my old Mac as a device, but I cannot get the music off it.

How can I get my old iTunes music onto my new computer without access to my old computer? I left my previous job and forgot to transfer my music. I bought iTunes match and it shows my old Mac as a device, but I cannot access any of the old music. All I can find are what was on my iPhone, but that's not what I want. I need all my old music from my old Mac, which has been wiped clean by IT at my old job. BUT, I did have iCloud at that time and I thought all my music would be accessible through it. I don't understand the Cloud! And I'm thinking spending $24.99 on iTunes Match was a waste of money because I still can't access my old music.

When you are done with this issue, consider the computer back at the office may still
have access to your iTunes account, and it should be de-auhorized. You can do that
remotely, but be sure you carefully do not mess up your other computer iTunes libraries.
Good luck & happy computing!

While installing windows with bootcamp error showing "A require Cd/Drive driver is missing" in the middle of installation. Please help what to do ??

While installing windows with bootcamp error showing "A require Cd/Drive driver is missing" in the middle of installation m not able to install windows on my mac . Please help what to do ??

What DVD drive are you using?

My airplay button will not show up on any of my devices anymore.

My airplay button no longer will show up on any of my devices. I have the new Ipad, Iphone 4s, Ipod touch, and macbook pro. Every device is on the same wifi network and the network is secure and 100% strong. I was just using airplay yesterday and now it no longer will show up, I re-set my apple tv and re booted every device and nothing still. How do I fix this.....?

Every device is also up to date

Ipod nano 4gb not showing in itunes or recognized as device

Out of the blue my nano is not detected as a device with my Windows XP. First I tested my USB port to see if that was the issue. I connected a mouse which was recognized and worked fine. I then got another sync cord thinking maybe my cord went bad and that is not working either. When I used my old cord I received an error message that I exceeded the power limit on my hub port. Which is why I thought my cord was bad. With the second cord I get no such errow however the ipod is charging but doing nothing else. I've gone out to my device list to see if there were any visible errors or anything diabled and its not showing any. But its also not showing an ipod or mass hub device like it normally would. Any thoughts on the issue would be greatly appreciated!

My ipod is doing the same thing. could you please tell me how you fixed it?

Firefox shows up as a drive in devices column

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for