should i uninstall older versions of firefox

Mozilla CTO Eric Rescorla posted a blog on the technical details of what went wrong last weekend.

If you enabled telemetry to get the initial fix, we’re deleting all data collected since May 4.

A less technical blog post about the outage is also available.

If you are running Firefox versions 47 – 56: install this extension to resolve the expired security certificate issue and re-enable extensions and themes.

If you are running Firefox versions 57 – 60: Install this extension to resolve the expired security certificate issue and re-enable extensions and themes.

If you are running Firefox versions 61 – 65 and 1) did not receive the deployed fix and 2) do not want to update to the current version (which includes the permanent fix): Install this extension to resolve the expired security certificate issue and re-enable extensions and themes.

The ftp server not only lists the latest version but also all other releases that have been created in the past all the way from version 0.1 to the very latest version.Updates – Last updated 14:35 PST May 14, 2019. Just point your web browser to and visit the ftp repositories for either program. There is however a very easy way of downloading old versions of either Thunderbird or Firefox. It might be different during beta testing but it is generally recommended to figure out other ways of coping with a problem. It is therefor usually not a good idea to download and install an old version.

This is done to protect users from downloading outdated, insecure or unstable versions of a software. The official website that provide downloads of Firefox and Thunderbird only offer the latest version of the programs for all supported operating systems. The situation was that he switched to Thunderbird 3 beta 3 and noticed that some of the add-ons that he had installed were not working anymore. A Ghacks reader recently posted a comment asking whether it is possible to download old releases of Thunderbird.

Should i uninstall older versions of firefox