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How to downgrade from Firefox 5 to Firefox 4 (the upgrade never told me my plugins would not work)

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Got a message to upgrade to Firefox 5, so I did. When the upgrade was done it told me that my plugins would not work so I was stuck with a million times less good browser after my upgrade.

Your guides how to downgrade only gives me links to 3.6 version and I prefer using 4

Got a message to upgrade to Firefox 5, so I did. When the upgrade was done it told me that my plugins would not work so I was stuck with a million times less good browser after my upgrade. Your guides how to downgrade only gives me links to 3.6 version and I prefer using 4

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Having Firefox 5 final version released with some minor improvements from Firefox 4 but the only problem you may face is some add-ons worked in Firefox 4 may not compatible with Firefox 5 and if you don’t want to sacrifice your favorite add-ons for Firefox 5 here is the guide to ( help you to get back to Firefox 4 without loosing your settings, bookmarks, add-ons which is called downgrading) downgrade from Firefox 5 to Firefox 4 or earlier versions .

Downgrading from Firefox 5 to Firefox 4.0.1 or older versions

1. Visit ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org.../releases/ in your browser.

2. Open Firefox 4.0.1 folder >Win32 folder >en-US

3. Download and install Firefox setup 4.0.1 exe file

You’ll be automatically downgraded to Firefox 4.0.1 and your favorite add-ons, bookmarks and settings will remain untouched and disabled add-ons will be enabled.

Modified by geturdarshan

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Thank you geturdarshan

It worked perfect.

There are many pages in the same domain, asking the same question. I have quoted you in one place, of course with your display name, geturdarshan

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Modified by the-edmeister

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Thanks a lot. Worked as a charm for me to on Mac, just selected the Mac folder instead.

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hi, thanks for the info, but i tried this and still find most of my addons are disabled in firefox 4. any other thoughts? thanks!

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ok i have a similar problem its just that i went from 4 to 7 by accident and i need firefox 6... ANY HELP?