Firefox 56.0.1 Needs To Go Back To Drawing Board
I am using an HP Pavilion desktop with Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit, 8GB of Ram and an Intel Quad Core CPU 250 GHz. Yesterday I updated my Firefox from 56.0 32 Bit to 56.0.1 to what I thought would be 32 Bit as well. BIG MISTAKE. I use several photo editing websites which became completely useless to try and use as it made the editing brush tools very jerky and on some sites unresponsive. Firefox became completely unresponsive at times and I had to shut it down through the Task Manager. Scrolling stops at times on different sites.
Looking at the release notes of the update I noticed that Firefox took it upon themselves to and I quote, "Users of 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows are migrated to 64-bit Firefox for increased stability and security." I looked at my now new updated Firefox and sure enough it was now 64 Bit. Why in the hell did Firefox do this when the 32 Bit version was fine at least for me. The stability and security is nothing but an excuse and BS. Since I religiously do weekly backups on my computer I restored my computer to an earlier date and I now have Firefox 56.0 32 Bit back and everything is working great. There will not be anymore updates to Firefox on my computer until the engineers fix this cluster **** of a mess they put out. If this is what the great and almighty Firefox 57.0 is going to be like then I do not want any part of it. I have Chrome on my computer which works great and if Firefox cannot get it's s**t together then I will switch to Chrome and wave bye to Mozilla after all these years of having it.
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FredMcD said
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-56.0.1-SSL&os=win&lang=en-US Win Firefox v56 32bit or you can Install Older Version Of Firefox {web link} Be sure to read everything here. If you still want to downgrade, look under; I still want to downgrade. Click the Directory of other versions and languages link. Look for the directory of the version that you want. But, remember that old versions may have security issues. You should also check out Firefox; Extended Support Release {web link} ESR Notes System Requirements
I see now what you are saying and that has fixed the problem. I have downloaded the 56.0.1 edition and it downloaded as 32. Thank your for your help and I will close this out.
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Download the Firefox you want from here; Download Firefox For All languages And Systems {web link}
FredMcD said
Download the Firefox you want from here; Download Firefox For All languages And Systems {web link}
Now why would I want to download 56.0.1 again so that it is migrated to 64 bit again after I just did a system restore to an earlier date to get rid of that crap and get 56.0 back in 32 bit so it will work properly. It looks as if 56.0 is as far as I am going to take Firefox and then I will just switch over to Chrome and set that as my default browser and put Firefox in mothballs.
Use the link to get the 32bit version.
FredMcD said
Use the link to get the 32bit version.
I may be overlooking something but I do not see where you can download 56.0.1 32 bit edition. If there is one then it will download as a 64 bit edition since Firefox is now doing this "Users of 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows are migrated to 64-bit Firefox for increased stability and security" which clearly states that in the 56.0.1 release notes. I was under the impression that when I downloaded the update for my Firefox 56.0 32 bit edition in the first place it would have updated to 56.0.1 32 bit but it did not. What I got was the 56.0.1 64 bit edition because of the migration. It is a waste of time if I downloaded Firefox 56.0.1 from that link you gave me and it downloads the 64 bit edition again.
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-56.0.1-SSL&os=win&lang=en-US Win Firefox v56 32bit
or you can
Install Older Version Of Firefox {web link} Be sure to read everything here.
If you still want to downgrade, look under; I still want to downgrade. Click the Directory of other versions and languages link. Look for the directory of the version that you want. But, remember that old versions may have security issues.
You should also check out Firefox; Extended Support Release {web link} ESR Notes System Requirements
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FredMcD said
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-56.0.1-SSL&os=win&lang=en-US Win Firefox v56 32bit or you can Install Older Version Of Firefox {web link} Be sure to read everything here. If you still want to downgrade, look under; I still want to downgrade. Click the Directory of other versions and languages link. Look for the directory of the version that you want. But, remember that old versions may have security issues. You should also check out Firefox; Extended Support Release {web link} ESR Notes System Requirements
I see now what you are saying and that has fixed the problem. I have downloaded the 56.0.1 edition and it downloaded as 32. Thank your for your help and I will close this out.
Just to confirm what FredMcD said, the 64-bit migration is a one-time event. 32-bit Firefox 56.0 users will be migrated to 64-bit Firefox 56.0.1. If you download and install 32-bit Firefox 56.0.1, you can stay on the 32-bit builds and will not be migrated to 64-bit in the future.
To get 32-bit Firefox 56.0.1, you must download the 32-bit installer (labeled "Windows") from the "All Languages and Platforms" page: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ . If you download the installer from the Firefox home page, you will receive the "stub installer" which will default to installing 64-bit again.
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Chris Peterson said
Just to confirm what FredMcD said, the 64-bit migration is a one-time event. 32-bit Firefox 56.0 users will be migrated to 64-bit Firefox 56.0.1. If you download and install 32-bit Firefox 56.0.1, you can stay on the 32-bit builds and will not be migrated to 64-bit in the future. To get 32-bit Firefox 56.0.1, you must download the 32-bit installer (labeled "Windows") from the "All Languages and Platforms" page: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/ . If you download the installer from the Firefox home page, you will receive the "stub installer" which will default to installing 64-bit again.
Thank you Chris and I have done just that from Fred's link.