Why won't firefox won't install on my imac with ox 10.5.8?

I am trying to install firefox for the first time on this machine. It will not install. It seems to be incompatible. Can I install an earlier version?

Hello, Thank you for the reply. I have the SDK tool but haven't had much time to work with it and get it to run proper. It is a new phone and "ATT" has disabled several features on it as to restrict usage of thier phones. I Did get Fennec to install from your feb 22 update (#4.06pre) and so far it runs great. So I will try and use it as much as possible to test it out. I don't know what changes you made from the one in the android market to that one but it fixed the problem and thank you.

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Why won't Firefox download? It completed the set up stage then stops.

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