How can I switch from FF 128.8.0 ESR to latest FF regular version (FF 136)
Hello, Any help would be tremendously appreciated! Can someone please tell me very briefly the steps to switch from the FF 128.8 ESR version to the latest supported regular version, which I believe is FF 136. From my research, it appears that you can download the regular version and go to about:profiles to switch your profile back to your original one used w the ESR version. Please list the very simple steps (1,2,3 etc) to switch from ESR to regular version for a non techie.
My background, I have an older MacBook Pro mid 2015, which had 10.11 installed (El Capitan) and recently took the plunge & updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.7.6), which was the highest allowed for this older MacBook. The new OS is awesome & fixed so many websites that were no longer working.
Firefox automatically moved me to the ESR version at some point with my older Mac 10.11 OS. I believe my latest supported version was 78.15 ESR. When I recently updated my MacBook OS to Monterey 12.7.6, Firefox updated automatically to 128.8 ESR.
Now, many websites recently seem to be broken (gmail, yahoo calendar, duckduckgo, & others), so moving from ESR to the most recent regular version seems like the best solution (I believe FF 136 is highest supported by Mac OS 12.7.6). Please list the very simple switch steps or point me to an article. Thanks very very much.
Изменено Nick
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/topics/backup-data
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-firefox-bookmarks-to-backup-or-transfer
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/restore-bookmarks-from-backup-or-move-them
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/export-login-data-firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/966133
There's probably more but you should do a Firefox search for each data points to insure you get the right info backup before updating Firefox.
And as anything I would uninstall the ESR version before installing the most recent version.
Thank you for your response and suggestions to back-up.
I'm still hoping someone can help me with the simple steps (including links) spelled out how to switch from an ESR version to a regular Firefox version. The simple the better, since I'm not a tech inclined person. Thank you very much.
Nick, if your primary concern is preserving your passwords, then you only need to ensure that the following two files make it from the old profile to the new profile:
- key4.db
- logins.json
The links provided by markwarner22 should explain how to find your profile folder.
I am not an expert on switching from the ESR version to the normal version, but it should be safe to do the following:
- find your ESR profile.
- fully close Firefox
- make a backup copy of the entire folder, or at least the two files listed above
- install the new version of Firefox
Now either the new Firefox will automatically start up using the old profile, in which case you are finished, or it will start up with a clean profile.
In which case you can do the following:
- find the new profile folder
- fully close Firefox
- copy the two files that you earlier backed up from the ESR profile, into the new profile folder
Hopefully the new Firefox should now start up with all the passwords from the ESR profile.
Note, I would personally backup the entire ESR profil folder, as if something did go wrong with the new install, thn you will be able to get hback to where you were with ESR if you have an intact copy of its profile.
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