How do I over-write the last 3.6 version of FF over 5.0?
5.0 may be fine for normal users, but not for a professional writer. I had plugins in place before that allowed me to have as many as 500 tabs up, with every single news source and asset I needed to write for the over 150 websites I write for.
No, I don't always need 500 tabs, but 5.0 won't even function properly with 90.
5.0 is also memory hungry, and slows my new computer down, and freezes it up. More than 75% of my hard drive is empty, that's not the problem.
There are functional differences too that make it unusable for my purposes. In an effort to make FF better for the many, it does not work now for the few that need it the most.
Please help, and thanks.
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You can download Firefox 3.6 from here:-
http://www.firefox.com/all-older.html
Make sure that you uninstall Firefox 5.0 first though.
That's great my friend. The downside is that I'll have to upload my bookmarks once again & record every single URL before I do the uninstall, but I suppose it's worth it.
Your "uninstall Firefox 5.0 first though" part would tend to indicate that we can update without uninstalling forwards, but not a "backwards backdate".
Still, it's worth the price to pay in inconvenience.
kerframil, I added a new job today, the new managing editor for a struggling LSU news magazine for a prominent sports network. I'll have to email the owner in the morning and explain why there's not a new article up.
Last night one of my New Orleans Saints articles was inside Sports Illustrated, picked up from that same network's Saints site.
So you see the stakes I'm dealing with. I have a Saints internet magazine myself. No new article in 3 days.
Thanks kerframil. I'll remember you. I'll come back and mark this one solved after I do the "retro" download 2morow, but I'll not do the uninstall & download until I come back here to see if you added another comment.
Thanks again my friend.
You won't lo0se any personal data merely by un-installing Firefox 5.0, just don't select the option to do that when you do the un-install!
You can very easily back up all your Firefox personal data quite easily, to play it safe.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information
Wow the-edmeister, by personal data you mean bookmarks etc? That sounds GREAT. I haven't yet had the time to do the retro software load, I have to write some articles first.
I'll be able to pass this all on to a couple of my members after I'm done, they accidentally upgraded to 5.0, and wanted to go back as well.
I just opened that link, it is great stuff indeed. Thanks very much to both of you.
"May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the undergarments of thine enemies"
Ha ha...
I'll be back later to mark this solved after I finish.