Ok, forgive me for my ignorance, but I'm a very (VERY) new Mac user. Been using Windows for around 15 years and Linux for 10, so I'm fairly familiar with general computer usage, but not Mac-specifics .
Anyways, I'm trying to figure out how to install software like Firefox (or rather, how to do it more easily).
When I visited Mozilla's site in Safari, it prompted me to download a .dmg file for Firefox. I started download, but then after it finished it stuck at "Preparing to Extract Archive" (or something similar to that - not at home right now). Eventually I just closed Safari. The file seemed intact, but when I double click on it, I get a bouncing icon in the dock for a sec, then it just goes away. The default application for handling .dmg files seems to be "Disk Copier", which just doesn't sound right, but that's a hunch . After reading a bit, I was able to open it with the hdiutil command line utility, then drag it over to my applications folder. I now have the program installed, but it seems like somewhere I took the long way around . Any easier way to handle these?
Thanks very much.
Anyways, I'm trying to figure out how to install software like Firefox (or rather, how to do it more easily).
When I visited Mozilla's site in Safari, it prompted me to download a .dmg file for Firefox. I started download, but then after it finished it stuck at "Preparing to Extract Archive" (or something similar to that - not at home right now). Eventually I just closed Safari. The file seemed intact, but when I double click on it, I get a bouncing icon in the dock for a sec, then it just goes away. The default application for handling .dmg files seems to be "Disk Copier", which just doesn't sound right, but that's a hunch . After reading a bit, I was able to open it with the hdiutil command line utility, then drag it over to my applications folder. I now have the program installed, but it seems like somewhere I took the long way around . Any easier way to handle these?
Thanks very much.