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I would like to find the settings for PREVENTING FIREFOX VER 115 ESR on MAC from UPDATING. \

This is because Firefox 115.7.0esr.dmg is (supposedly) the last version for old MacBook Air that lets me watch Netflix on that machine. I want to use Firefox exclusively for that purpose, so that all of Mozilla and Firefox staff can stop worrying about viruses, etc.

The question is: Is there such a setting on Firefox 115.7.0esr.dmg that would let me accomplish that. I CAN follow long-winded & complicated instructions to the letter, and as long as these instructions are correct and complete, there should be no problem. If mission control for NASA's 1977's Voyager can still communicate and extend the useful of the Voyager probe, then I figure that you understand what it might take to keep a MacBook Air from 2015 going. In other words: As long as it works, it's worth it to keep it going.

If Mozilla's mantra is: "Lets destroy everything older than 4 years", then you will not understand the issue.

Does anyone on Support Mozilla know the secret magic software words to do this?

I have been using an old version of Firefox (109.0.1). I am not typically using a newer version because of an essential - to me - add-on which hasn't been updated, and which doesn't work in more recent versions.

On macOS Sierra this old version of Firefox crashes. Troubleshooting mode (I was prompted a number of times) and restarting the browser appears to eventually resolve the crash, but finally there is an issue with the memory and the browser doesn't "work."

The reason for the crash given is " MozCrashReason: Failed to load critical module "resource://gre/modules/WebNavigation.jsm" "

The crash report text is reproduced below: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

AdapterDeviceID: 0x6821 AdapterVendorID: 0x1002 Add-ons: support%40lastpass.com:4.126.0.1,%7Bd10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d%7D:3.23,%7B65e41d20-f092-41b7-bb83-c6e8a9ab0f57%7D:1.2.9,firefox-prod-suspender%40firefox-workona.com:1.1.0,%7B7d2676a5-0546-4e2a-9019-aa9d8345be1e%7D:0.4.5,%7B45f2dc53-96cd-4c41-91f6-f4a73a8fb2b0%7D:5.2.0,screenshots%40mozilla.org:39.0.1,webcompat%40mozilla.org:109.0.0,formautofill%40mozilla.org:1.0.1,pictureinpicture%40mozilla.org:1.0.0,amazondotcom%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,bing%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,ebay%40search.mozilla.org:1.4,google%40search.mozilla.org:1.3,wikipedia%40search.mozilla.org:1.2,ddg%40search.mozilla.org:1.3,default-theme%40mozilla.org:1.3,addons-search-detection%40mozilla.com:2.0.0 AvailablePhysicalMemory: 22274048 AvailableSwapMemory: 1025769472 BackgroundTaskMode: 0 BuildID: 20230127170202 ContentSandboxCapable: 1 ContentSandboxLevel: 3 CrashTime: 1709070070 DOMFissionEnabled: 1 DOMIPCEnabled: 1 EMCheckCompatibility: true EventLoopNestingLevel: 1 GpuSandboxLevel: 0 GraphicsNumRenderers: 6 HeadlessMode: 0 InstallTime: 1685805973 JSOutOfMemory: Reported MacAvailableMemorySysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressure: Normal MacMemoryPressureCriticalTime: Unset MacMemoryPressureNormalTime: 1709070001 MacMemoryPressureSysctl: 1 MacMemoryPressureWarningTime: Unset MozCrashReason: Failed to load critical module "resource://gre/modules/WebNavigation.jsm" Notes: FP(D00-L1000-W00000000-T000) WR? WR+ GL Context? GL Context+ ProductID: {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} ProductName: Firefox PurgeablePhysicalMemory: 15732736 ReleaseChannel: release SafeMode: 0 SecondsSinceLastCrash: 41204 StartupCrash: 0 StartupTime: 1709070000 SubmittedFrom: Client TelemetryEnvironment: {"build":{"applicationId":"{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}","applicationName":"Firefox","architecture":"x86-64","buildId":"20230127170202","version":"109.0.1","vendor":"Mozilla","displayVersion":"109.0.1","platformVersion":"109.0.1","xpcomAbi":"x86_64-gcc3","updaterAvailable":true},"partner":{"distributionId":null,"distributionVersion":null,"partnerId":null,"distributor":null,"distributorChannel":null,"partnerNames":[]},"system":{"memoryMB":16384,"virtualMaxMB":null,"cpu":{"extensions":["hasMMX","hasSSE","hasSSE2","hasSSE3","hasSSSE3","hasSSE4_1","hasSSE4_2","hasAVX","hasAVX2","hasAES"]},"os":{"name":"Darwin","version":"16.7.0","locale":"en-US"},"hdd":{"profile":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"binary":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null},"system":{"model":null,"revision":null,"type":null}},"gfx":{"D2DEnabled":null,"DWriteEnabled":null,"ContentBackend":"Skia","Headless":false,"EmbeddedInFirefoxReality":null,"adapters":[{"description":null,"vendorID":"0x1002","deviceID":"0x6821","subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":null,"driverDate":null,"GPUActive":true},{"description":null,"vendorID":"0x8086","deviceID":"0x0d26","subsysID":null,"RAM":0,"driver":null,"driverVendor":null,"driverVersion":null,"driverDate":null,"GPUActive":null}],"monitors":[{"screenWidth":1600,"screenHeight":1200,"scale":1}],"features":{"compositor":"none","hwCompositing":{"status":"available"},"gpuProcess":{"status":"unused"},"webrender":{"status":"available"},"wrCompositor":{"status":"available"},"openglCompositing":{"status":"available"},"omtp":{"status":"unused"}}},"appleModelId":"MacBookPro11,5","hasWinPackageId":null},"settings":{"blocklistEnabled":true,"e10sEnabled":true,"e10sMultiProcesses":8,"fissionEnabled":true,"telemetryEnabled":false,"locale":"en-US","intl":{},"update":{"channel":"release","enabled":true},"userPrefs":{"browser.cache.disk.capacity":1048576,"browser.fixup.alternate.enabled":false,"browser.search.region":"US","browser.search.widget.inNavBar":true,"browser.startup.page":3,"browser.urlbar.autoFill":true,"browser.urlbar.autoFill.adaptiveHistory.enabled":false,"browser.urlbar.dnsResolveSingleWordsAfterSearch":0,"browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.dataCollection.enabled":false,"browser.urlbar.showSearchSuggestionsFirst":false,"browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.nonsponsored":false,"browser.urlbar.suggest.quicksuggest.sponsored":false,"browser.urlbar.suggest.bestmatch":true,"doh-rollout.doorhanger-decision":"UIOk","extensions.formautofill.creditCards.used":2,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastInstallStart":1708260927,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastDownload":1700275645,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastDownloadFailed":1708260927,"media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastDownloadFailReason":"Error: Failed downloading via ServiceRequest, status: 0, reason: error","media.gmp-gmpopenh264.lastUpdate":1700275646,"media.gmp-manager.lastCheck":1708260927,"media.gmp-manager.lastEmptyCheck":1707770876,"network.trr.strict_native_fallback":false,"privacy.donottrackheader.enabled":true,"signon.rememberSignons":false,"widget.content.allow-gtk-dark-theme":false,"widget.content.gtk-high-contrast.enabled":true,"nimbus.qa.pref-1":"default","nimbus.qa.pref-2":"default"},"sandbox":{"effectiveContentProcessLevel":3,"contentWin32kLockdownState":3},"addonCompatibilityCheckEnabled":true,"isDefaultBrowser":null},"profile":{}} Throttleable: 1 TotalPhysicalMemory: 17179869184 URL: about:blank UptimeTS: 78.50175771 Vendor: Mozilla Version: 109.0.1 useragent_locale: en-US

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