Firefox upgrade won't work on my old computer

When prompted by Gmail to upgrade Firefox on my Mac (OS 10.4.11) because Gmail would no longer support the old version of Firefox I was using, I downloaded it and replaced the old Firefox icon with the newly-downloaded Firefox 12.0 icon in my Applications folder.
However, I now can't open the new Firefox because my computer (and me) are too old to work with it. HELP! Is there a version of Firefox I can use??? All my tabs were on Morning Coffee and all my 5 and 7 year old bookmarks were on that Firefox and it's GONE :–(

Your data is probably intact, in your profile folder. Be sure to create a backup copy as soon as possible.
# Open '''Finder''' and go to your home folder. Your home folder is usually the name of your Mac user account.
# From your home folder open ''/Library/'', then ''/Application Support/'', then ''/Firefox/'', then ''/Profiles/''. Your profile folder is within this folder.
# Create a copy of this folder to a safe location.
Unfortunately, the last version of Firefox to work with PowerPC Macs was 3.6.28 which is now unsupported, and contains security vulnerabilities. It's safest not to use it. Details are in the article
* [[Firefox no longer works with Mac OS X 10.4 or PowerPC processors]]
There is however a third-party build of Firefox called TenFourFox that will work and is kept up-to-date. More information at
* [http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/]

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