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ginhb

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 8, 2018
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It's a newbie question. Picked up a new laptop with Catalina installed. Prior to that I had only used High Sierra. Installed Firefox under the Admin account, but it only shows in the Applications screen while logged in with that one Admin account. I want it available to a Standard user account also.

What is the correct way to accomplish that? I figured an installed application would be available to other user accounts as well.

Thanks
 

chrfr

macrumors G5
Jul 11, 2009
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7,188
It's a newbie question. Picked up a new laptop with Catalina installed. Prior to that I had only used High Sierra. Installed Firefox under the Admin account, but it only shows in the Applications screen while logged in with that one Admin account. I want it available to a Standard user account also.

What is the correct way to accomplish that? I figured an installed application would be available to other user accounts as well.

Thanks
Put it in the main Applications folder, not the one you see in your account's home folder, and it will be available to all.
 

Tech198

Cancelled
Mar 21, 2011
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Put it in the main Applications folder, not the one you see in your account's home folder, and it will be available to all.

I feel stupid for not knowing this.. how long have i been a mac user again..?
 
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