

or if you have already installed it through browser popup, then just uninstall it from control panel and download from the official site and install it as explained it the previous solution. Whenever you get the popup to install the Citrix from the browser, just cancel it and install Citrix, by the way, explained in the first solution above. In my case, it was the root cause that I was not able to open ICA files to launch applications. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
#Citrix on mac not working full version#
It is my personal experience that the Citrix you install from browser popup is not the full version of Citrix. It can also cause a problem if Citrix ICA files not opening.

If you have not installed the Citrix previously and try to open the Citrix URL, then the browser will prompt you to download the Citrix first. Problem Cause 2: Incorrect Citrix Installed Once installed, try to open the ICA file again and this time it should work. After August 2018, Citrix receiver has been replaced by Citrix Workspace app which you can get from here. You need to install the latest version of Citrix Receiver from the official site. This is a very common cause of this problem that windows OS is not able to open ICA files as they don’t have the program installed to open the file. Lets dig out in each of these causes and look for respective solutions: Problem Cause 1: Citrix Not Installed

So in that case it becomes difficult to figure out the cause of this issue. Sometimes, if you try to launch an app from Citrix URL, it downloads a file with ICA extension but when you click on it to launch, nothing appears on the screen. Today we will talk about a very common Citrix problem on Windows operating system. ica extension not opening after download – fix ICA Files Lifecycle
