Your description of the file link concerned me a little - if you didn't go to the en-US folder you might have gotten the wrong language version. Some work better if you right click them and tell them to run in compatibility mode.
Lasardo wrote:Last question first - most old windows software will run on 64-bit windows, but not all.
Can you run an old 32 bit program on a 64 bit machine?Īnyway, thank you gentlemen for your help. Now I realize this is not the forum for this but a simple question. But this one is pretty tried, true and tested?
Now do I just click on it and run it? Is there anything I should back up before I set that working? Are we pretty confident that this update will install without any difficulties? Remember, years ago I attempted to update Firefox and the install didn't go well or the program didn't work and I was lucky to get it back to that ancient version.
I will start to look into a more modern solution.īut back to my original question for a moment.
I could put it on top of my desktop and figure out how to move files between them. I could get creative with a new laptop or something like that to go to the internet as you suggest. I take your advise lasardo and I truly have to look at a new computer. So you sent me back there and I clicked the very top one and there it was. Thanks lasardo, I saw the link on James response and I clicked it but when I saw all the different directories I got confused. Thank you for your help as I do appreciate it and the third alternative to this would be to not do anything at all but I would like to get back a little of the usefulness of this computer that is going away with each website that updates way beyond my old 20.0.1. So my question is two fold: 1) What would be a good version to update too that would load easily and run? 2) How do I back up my current Firefox information so it will load into the newer version? If I need something really new I have an iPad that I use and I consider it expendable if something got a hold of it and corrupted it. So I'm very careful where I go and what I click with this machine. I fully understand the security risks of these older versions that I'm taking but to maintain the old programs that I am using I don't have much choice. In doing some research I see that Firefox version 52.0 "funnelcake101 for a 32bit windows machine" might be a good stable version.
About five years ago I attempted to update Firefox and this caused many issues and I was lucky to get back to the current old version I'm using now which works fine. I am running Firefox V20.0.1 and it's worked just fine until about the last six months when I started to "algorithm" exceptions and other things on different websites I have used for years that apparently have "enhanced security". I realize this is an old machine but I have old programs (that won't run on the new machines) that I use every day and it does everything that I need of a computer.
Firefox Portable is a dual-mode 32-bit and 64-bit app, ensuring Firefox runs as fast as possible on every PC.I have an old Windows computer running Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, SP3. Plus, thanks to the launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.
It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Mozilla Firefox® is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. Individual users should use standard Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition. It is intended for groups who deploy and maintain the desktop environment in large organizations such as universities and other schools, county or city governments and businesses and the developers who support them. Mozilla Firefox® Portable Edition Legacy 52 is the final release of the 52.x branch of the Extended Support Release of the Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks and passwords with you.