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How much more memory recuired to pass from FF3 to FF5?

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There is insistance for reasons of security they say .. change to FF5 .. but I have an old 256M ram .. what can I do ? FF5 can't adjust to old machines memory? Thanks

There is insistance for reasons of security they say .. change to FF5 .. but I have an old 256M ram .. what can I do ? FF5 can't adjust to old machines memory? Thanks

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Firefox 3.6.20 received the same security updates as Firefox 6.0 did. Firefox 5.0 isn't supported any longer.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/6.0/system-requirements/

Do you even have a Pentium 4 SSE2 processor? Most P4's came with more than 256MB of RAM.

I have a hunch that old WinXP PC isn't strong enough to run a Firefox 4+ version. Firefox 3.6.20 just might be the final version you can use.

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Firefox 3.6.20 received the same security updates as Firefox 6.0 did. Firefox 5.0 isn't supported any longer.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/6.0/system-requirements/

Do you even have a Pentium 4 SSE2 processor? Most P4's came with more than 256MB of RAM.

I have a hunch that old WinXP PC isn't strong enough to run a Firefox 4+ version. Firefox 3.6.20 just might be the final version you can use.

atra
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Thanks Ed Meister ... I just hope the 3.6 doesn't dissappear as 5.o .. for those attached to their P3 .. haha.

But I still keep curious .. how much ram does version 6 occupies. Thank you Ed any way.