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1. #Old firefox versions for mac install#
2. #Old firefox versions for mac update#
3. #Old firefox versions for mac archive#
4. #Old firefox versions for mac software#
5. #Old firefox versions for mac Pc#

Fortunately there are a few tricks you can use to make this happen. There’s a problem here: Firefox doesn’t like it when two different versions are run side-by-side. Firefox 3.6 has a few bugs, and because of its big installed base you probably need to run some tests on it as well. However, there are still many people using the older 3.6 version of Firefox. Both Chrome and Firefox have a very fast release cycle, where new versions are released every six weeks or so. Most of the bugs you need to fix are probably in older versions of Internet Explorer. In order to use older versions, just get the needed package and unpack following the steps above.Cross-browser testing is pretty essential when developing web sites.

#Old firefox versions for mac update#

So, you may update any time the current package. Now, going to 'Help/About Firefox', it will not update automatically, just display 'Check for Updates'.

#Old firefox versions for mac install#

Before that, go to 'Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Update' and uncheck 'Automatically install updates' (check the other options instead). To avoid a 'portable' version being updated, avoid going to 'Help/About Firefox', or the browser will download latest version and will update on restart. so that certain extensions may work with certain versions but not with others.This may lead to loosing certain installed extensions and customizations. The 'portable' versions all use the same extensions, profiles etc.

#Old firefox versions for mac software#

I have different versions that I keep an eye on, while the software has a frenetic (sometimes hard to understand) pace. In which case it is better to use lighter ubuntus like Lubuntu instead of keeping Firefox or Ubuntu downgraded.Īrchived ("portable") older packages can be downloaded from here.ĭownload and unpack one of them, and then create a desktop launcher for the 'firefox/firefox' executable.ĭifferent versions can be used in this way. This solution below should be considered only when newest versions have hardware / OS requirements that are too high etc. One should take into account the usefulness of being up-to-date. I am aware this is an older post, and also a rather specific question, but in the general form of the title ( "How can I install a specific older version of Firefox and keep it from automatically updating?") it seems useful for any version of Ubuntu and Firefox.

(No package is providing it it's installed manually without the package manager.)

Using this method, you don't have to hold the firefox package, because the firefox package is not what is providing Firefox 7.0.1. (If you apply this technique as I am recommending-that is, only to a similar but different problem where the software you're installing is still supported with security updates-then you'll be installing a different program and will thus have to change the argument to wget anyway.) You might want to change it, or implement the script to figure out a reasonable mirror to download from. There is no reason to think the download mirror I have used in the script is the best one for you. It creates a symbolic link to the newly installed Firefox 7.0.1 binary in /usr/bin, which will fail if you still had another version of Firefox installed, but you would want it to fail in that situation.

#Old firefox versions for mac Pc#

It also assumes that if you don't have a 64-bit PC (or Intel Mac), then you have a 32-bit PC (or Intel Mac), since the script would fail anyway for other architectures since binary builds are not provided upstream for them (you can still build from source for them though) while this is safe in the sense that it doesn't increase the risk of failure, it doesn't give any useful error message when the architecture is unsupported.

#Old firefox versions for mac archive#

It assumes that /opt exists with reasonable permissions or that it doesn't exist and can be created (which is pretty safe), that the download succeeds (which is not particularly safe), and that the archive successfully unpacks (which is somewhat safe, if the download succeeded). The script above doesn't check to see whether or not commands completed successfully before proceeding. Ln -s /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin/firefoxĪs explained above, you should not do this at all! (This technique is useful for other purposes, which is the main reason I'm posting about it.) Sudo apt-get purge firefox # removes firefox comment out if definitely uninstalled Unless you can get one of the above techniques to work, the easiest way would probably be to make your script download the upstream Firefox 7.0.1 binary distribution, unpack it, and install it as root: || sudo mkdir -m 755 /opt (This is why Firefox 8 is in Lucid now.) Continuing to run Firefox 7.0.1 means you are running a version that has known security vulnerabilities that are not and never will be patched-it puts you (and your customers/clients, if applicable) at risk. You should not do this, because versions of Firefox past the 3.6-series do not remain supported, even with security updates, when new versions come out.