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

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