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Firefox 87.0 will not work with Catalina 10.15.7.

I upgraded to catalina 10.15.7. Worst decision ever! Now Firefox doers not open. tried downloading it again same problem. "there is already a copy open.......". AND Ebay will not

let me past its home page, can't login, screen just freezes. Help!

MacBook Pro

Posted on Apr 16, 2021 4:29 PM

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Apr 17, 2021 3:15 AM in response to tooldtoremember

There may be an easier way to troubleshoot &/or try to make macOS 10.15.7 work better.


Can't say what could help Firefox situation, however to start in Safe mode and login; that takes about 10-15 minutes to start. And checks system files, repairs some, and starts in limited mode. To quit Safe mode, simply re-start normally.


• How to use Safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262


[You could also start in macOS Recovery partition (choose/hold 'Opt key' on startup select other drive partitions.) That should allow start into Recovery that could leave the Catalina un-mounted; to have clear shot at repair. Then leave recovery and restart in the main boot system.]


• How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT204904


• How to repair a Mac disk with Disk Utility - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210898


Anyway, a revert to older system, would have learning curve.

Backups and 'full erase/reinstall' would be a way to do that.


Perhaps other perspective/opinions offered here may help.


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Apr 16, 2021 5:34 PM in response to tooldtoremember

Perhaps Mozilla Firefox site may have information on how to remove Firefox.


At least enough to clear + reinstall. (If you've other issues, there could

be need to revert older macOS. Helps to have earlier Time Machine.)


You maybe able to reinstall a newer download; &/or use along w/ Safari.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/87.0/releasenotes/


Should be no problem, can run in macOS 10.12.x through Big Sur macOS11.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-release


Haven't tried 'Brave' browser.. May be adequate, with curious options.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser). [this says a bit]



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May 1, 2021 3:29 PM in response to K Shaffer

Thank you. I tried Mozilla support but nothing they addresses the problem. I will try your suggestions and let you know. Reverting to older version is probably beyond my level of expertise and may frustrate me worse than I am. By the way a few days ago the same thing happened only Win10 PC, but I had no problem finding it in task Manager and closed it - no problem since. MacBook does not see it anywhere in utilities

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