Dowloaded firefox volume on desktop

New mac - yea!

I downloaded firefox to use, and there is now an icon on my desktop - if I Get info it says it is a volume. If I drag to the trash, it becomes "eject" - what is this 'volume'? If I eject, I can't use firefox anymore. Have I done something wrong in setting up the application?

I've got firefox on my dock, but when I open it, I get a strange small window that has the firefox icon with an arrow pointing to another icon and and arrow from there pointing to an icon for the applications folder.

thanks

you have mounted a disk image from the firefox install download

This is how most macs are installed

You need to drag the firefox application to your applications folder - a simple copy is all you need to install

from their drag the icon now copied in to your applications folder to the doc to set up a permanent link to firefox in your doc

take that firefox out of your dock, it's a disk image, not an app.

open the one on your desktop, drag the icon inside to your applications folder. then if you want, drag the one from your app folder to the dock as a shortcut.

then drag the disk image to the trash to eject (or eject it from finder). and then delete it.

1. Remove the firefox icon from the dock. That's the installer.
2. Double click on the firefox volume
3. open your applications folder
4. Drag the firefox icon (that small window you were talking of earlier) into your applications folder.

Now it's installed

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This gets a lot of new Mac users. Most programs you download from the internet are .dmg. When you double click on it it mounts a disk image on your desktop. It's kind of the same as if you put a CD into your computer or connect an external hard drive and it appears on the desktop.

What you have to do is drag the firefox application into your applications folder. That will essentially install the app. Then you can eject the volume and delete the .dmg file.

Most developers help you out by making little diagrams and creating a shortcut to your applications folder. Like for firefox, click and drag the firefox icon, following the arrow, to the applications folder.

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but you did offer up unique info.

Rather than ship apps in an exe installer, zip file etc.. Mac apps are usually enclosed in a DMG.

Think of a DMG as a virtual disk, a file based install CD (although they can be writeable). You should always copy the application from the DMG into applications and then eject the install DMG.