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c627627

c627627

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I posted this question on the official Firefox forum, reposting here for info purposes.

The old page now has stubs only, there is no full version on it:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/
EDIT: Mozilla fixed this page after i reported it, but we found a better page http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/

"Where is the official download page for full version of Firefox? Old one has only stubs now.

Separate but valid question: Searching Mozilla Support on this very forum yields no answers as to where to download the full version of the program itself, around which this entire forum has been set up with all the numerous questions in it about the program... yet there is no answer on how and where to actually *GET* the full version of the program... this strongly suggests that the forum administrators went out of their way, to make it difficult to impossible for users to get the FULL VERSION of the program...

There are many valid reasons for needing the full version of the program, don't you think it's pretty incredible that it has always been difficult to download the full version of Firefox? The old page had it buried in between the Acholi and Xhosa languages, even though English (US) is probably needed by millions of users vs. relatively few for Acholi and Xhosa... Millions of users had to go though gymnastics of finding it buried in between all the worlds languages with every consecutive version, and now they completely removed it even from that page...

What is the the reason, and you have to agree there is a reason, for Mozilla preventing us from having the full installation file? And what is the reason, even when the full installation file existed on that page, for this forum to make it almost impossible to find that page when searching the forum, or the entire internet for the official full version download page?"


I have always known where the beta files are:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
and full versions get eventually posted there too but that is one complicated ftp page that requires you going through multiple layers of directories just to get to the latest version of Firefox...


Edit: Just discovered a direct download link:
https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-37.0-SSL&os=win&lang=en-US

obviously the 37.0 part would just be replaced with future version number - still very complicated but quicker than before.


EDIT: ANSWERED:

c627627 said:
So here is the summary of answers to all the questions:

1. Single permanent full version download page:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/

EDIT: Here's another one:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/?q=English (US)

2. Single permanent version history changelog page:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/

3. Single permanent 'release schedule page, so you know when the next version of Firefox to expect:
http://release.mozilla.org/planning/2015/01/13/release-schedule.html


There is no way you can download or get an idea how to download the full version of Firefox from firefox.com.

Whatever the reason for that is, that's the reason why it's not easy to very quickly download the full version once you find the page containing 356 (three hundred fifty six) different downloads on a single page, which what they are selling as the answer to where the full download page is, once you search the internet for it: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/

The English version download is buried somewhere in the middle of those 356 downloads. :facepalm:
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Where did you get that screenshot that is useful info too.
I used to look at this page to get that info: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases

But yes,
1. They don't have a single, easily accessible full download web page.
2. They don't have a single, easily accessible page that lists version history changes (they do have complicated to get to individual separate pages)
3. That page you just posted is something I didn't think existed, a single easy to see overview of release schedules.
 
Hey MattNo5ss, thanks for tha link. Thank you very much.


So here is the summary of answers to all the questions:

1. Single permanent full version download page:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/win32/en-US/

EDIT: Here's another one:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/?q=English (US)

2. Single permanent version history changelog page:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/

3. Single permanent 'release schedule page, so you know when the next version of Firefox to expect:
http://release.mozilla.org/planning/2015/01/13/release-schedule.html


There is no way you can download or get an idea how to download the full version of Firefox from firefox.com.

Whatever the reason for that is, that's the reason why it's not easy to very quickly download the full version once you find the page containing 356 (three hundred fifty six) different downloads on a single page, which what they are selling as the answer to where the full download page is, once you search the internet for it: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/all/

The English version download is buried somewhere in the middle of those 356 downloads. :facepalm:
 
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Could you please post what is the real-world advantage of running a 64-bit Firefox vs. 32-Bit Firefox?
 
I always wondered what it was, I thought you knew...
In the past I did hear the Google Chrome crowd touting 64-Bit version of Chrome. At the time I paid little interest because there was no 64-Bit Firefox at the time but now that you say there will be...

I think they were talking about improvements from speed to reliability... instinctively I would have thought it was only about handling extremely huge amounts of data all at once...
 
Updates to FF 37 are currently on hold due to a crash on startup issue, seemingly affecting x64 Windows users with Windowblinds: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/rep...wsPlatform::InitD3D11Devices()#tab-sigsummary

Manual downloads are/were still live.




x64 browsers can take advantage of the improved native security of a x64 OS. More memory can be used (say goodbye to your browser crashing without trace when it hits ~1.8GB).

The better builds can be more stable than their x86 counterparts. In real world usage, they should feel more responsive.

They use 20-30% more disk space and use a similar extra amount of memory (no different to the base OS in that respect). Benchmarks are not likely to show as much, if any, improvement, they're simply outdated. Plugins are limited but that should improve over time, add-ons used are the same as the x86.

Pale Moon x64 is my default browser, has been for years; speed, stability and support, when needed, are superb.
 
Thanks man. I was just doing two things: reading your post and wondering why a Firefox install on my other partition won't update to 37...

It seems that with every single official release lately they immediately find they borked something or other, necessitating an incremental release, immediately after the initial release.

So version 40 is the first 64-Bit version, looking forward to that, thanks for the info! It seems like that will be an August 2015 release. So we're going to be running that on fresh Windows 10 installs then :)
 
The same Windows Blinds has messed up official Firefox releases several times in the past.
Maybe this time they will include a testing procedure for it before releasing their future final versions.

You would think that once something specific makes you release an x.0.1 version, you would blacklist that something and test all future versions against it... :( Not at Mozilla.

I really don't want them to go down... Firefox has been consistently declining every single month :( and Chrome has been climbing.
 
From what I could see, they should have picked up on the Windowblinds issue during the latter Alpha and Beta stages of FF 37, crashes were logged but apparently not investigated.

Further details on x64 browser usage, pros/cons, etc. from the Pale Moon dev: http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-win64.shtml
 
I really enjoyed PaleMoon until I found Avant and now it is all I use. Run Avant as portable in one folder on my computer or move folder to another computer and it just keeps on ticking.

RGone...
 
Right after I first viewed this thread the other day, I visited the ftp site. Oddly enough the update was dl'ing at the same time.
 
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