In this guide, we will see where to download and how to go back to a previous version of the Mozilla Firefox browser.
Have you just installed the latest version of Mozilla Firefox on your PC but things are not working well? The program often crashes and crashes, and many of the extensions used before now no longer work due to compatibility issues?
Perhaps the best solution for you is to wait for the release of another Firefox version of the browser and in the meantime download and return to use the previous one.
Mozilla Firefox is one of the current web browsers that has gradually gained followers for its various integrated functions and since the launch of Firefox Quantum has significantly improved the speed of execution of processes and searches in the browser. Extra features ideal for optimal work has been added.
Despite this, when a new edition of the browser is launched, it is possible that some execution, analysis or performance errors are presented, so a solution is to take a step back and go back to a previous version of the browser.
The problem lies in the fact that Firefox Quantum does not have a “Go back to the previous version” button, so it will be necessary to perform a different process, but it will be a very simple operation.
Download and return to a previous version of Firefox
Mozilla regularly releases new versions of the Firefox web browser. But you can download an older version to try out a website or extension when you use it.
The official Mozilla Firefox website does not offer links for downloading previous versions. If you want such a version, you can still download it from the File Transfer Protocol or from the FTP server. You can access that server and download them using your browser.
You may not know it, but all versions of Firefox, released since the birth of the software to date, are available on Mozilla’s FTP servers. All you have to do is connect to the latter and download the one that’s right for you, it can also be a good way to rediscover the origins of such a famous browser. Here we explain how to proceed in detail.
If you want to find out how to download previous versions of Mozilla Firefox, all you have to do is connect to the Mozilla FTP servers with any browser (Internet Explorer and Chrome are also fine) and you will be in the presence of a list of folders corresponding to all browser versions. released from 2004 to today.
To do this, simply enter the following site where the directories of the previous versions are also available: VERSIONS OF FIREFOX
There we will select the desired version, for example, if we have chosen version 52.0, we click on it.
As we can see, installers are available for Windows, Linux or macOS, in this case, we click on “win64” and after this, we will be redirected to the language section, in this case, we select it to download the Firefox version.
Click the installer file with the EXE extension on the page that appears to download the installer for that version.
Click on Save and after the download is complete we will see the Firefox installer.
At this point, all you have to do is open the file you just downloaded by double-clicking and installing the selected version of Firefox normally following the suggested wizard (simply click on the next one).
However, remember that using previous versions of programs (especially browsers) means being subject to many cyber threats that can be avoided when using the most up-to-date versions of the programs.
