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Updated Firefox to 3.6.17 and then downloaded 4.0, and when installing got message that previous version was newer.

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I updated Firefox to the latest version 3.6.17 on my Mac, and then saw that there was a version 4 available. So I downloaded it and and tried to install it by dragging the Firefox Icon to the Apps folder. A message appeared asking if I wanted to replace the newer version already there with this older version. Is 3.6.17 newer than 4? What is the latest for Mac?

I updated Firefox to the latest version 3.6.17 on my Mac, and then saw that there was a version 4 available. So I downloaded it and and tried to install it by dragging the Firefox Icon to the Apps folder. A message appeared asking if I wanted to replace the newer version already there with this older version. Is 3.6.17 newer than 4? What is the latest for Mac?

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Mozilla are currently maintaining 3 different release versions of Firefox, with the latest versions being 3.5.19, 3.6.17 and 4.0.1

Depending on when the files were created, you can get a version of Firefox 3.6 being reported as newer than a version of Firefox 4. If you want to use Firefox 4 you should install Firefox 4.0.1

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So 4.0.1 is really the latest version for Mac, and has newer features? Will I lose all the bookmarks and addons that I have in 3.6.17?

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Firefox 4 will use the same user data that Firefox 3.6 is currently using, you will have your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and other user data.

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Firefox 4.0 was completely unusable (see other posts on FF 4) due to it's excessive memory usage.

So I was forced to roll back to 3.6.16 (the previous version). Since then 3.6.16 has been upgraded to 3.6.17 - so I can see how that may have looked like a more recent version than FF 4.0.

However, my experience of FF 4.o was so bad, I'm staying on 3.6.17 until the very last minute. If FF 4 isn't sorted by the time they can 3.6.17, sorry Mozilla, I'm gone - you used to make great products, but seem to have forgotten how.