so in the interest of staying up to date, i upgraded to 1.5 assuming all the banter was at least somewhat on point. although i had no serious problems, i was not happy with what i have come to expect as solid page rendering from the mozilla operation. intead, i got strangely condensed hyperlinks and no icon display for my bookmark bar (i really missed that part). so i spent the better part of 5 minutes struggling to find a legacy version (1.0.7).

thank goodness for ftp .
(http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.7
/mac/en-GB/Firefox%201.0.7.dmg)