Firefox System Requirements

Firefox 3.5

Windows

Operating Systems
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows XP
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Vista
Minimum Hardware
  • Pentium 233 MHz (Recommended: Pentium 500MHz or greater)
  • 64 MB RAM (Recommended: 128 MB RAM or greater)
  • 52 MB hard drive space

Mac

Operating Systems
  • Mac OS X 10.4 and later
Minimum Hardware
  • Macintosh computer with an Intel x86 or PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
  • 128 MB RAM (Recommended: 256 MB RAM or greater)
  • 200 MB hard drive space

Linux

Software Requirements

Please note that Linux distributors may provide packages for your distribution which have different requirements.

  • Firefox will not run at all without the following libraries or packages:
    • GTK+ 2.10 or higher
    • GLib 2.12 or higher
    • Pango 1.14 or higher
    • X.Org 1.0 or higher
  • For optimal functionality, we recommend the following libraries or packages:
    • NetworkManager 0.7 or higher
    • DBus 1.0 or higher
    • HAL 0.5.8 or higher
    • GNOME 2.16 or higher

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