How to stop: "Sure you want to use Firefox?" message

Are you sure you've installed it properly? When you first download Firefox, it will appear in a disk image on your desktop. Make sure you drag the enclosed application (the Firefox program itself) into your main Applications folder. Then eject the disk image, and launch Firefox from the Applications folder. You might see that message one more time, but on subsequent launches, you shouldn't.

Matt

If you have installed it properly into either /Applications or ~/Applications and it's still saying it's been downloaded from the internet then you can do the following

Open a Terminal window and type:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Firefox.app

This will strip the attribute and prevent the error message.

Cheers

Karen

HI,

With Safari open, from the Menu Bar, click Window/Downloads. If the Firefox download is present there, click the Clear button at the bottom of that window. See if that helps.





Carolyn 🙂