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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:
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:
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.
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