![]() ![]() Thanks lasardo for taking your time to respond here. If you like you can wait for more experts to respond with other advice. Firefox 52 worked well when I used it, but, it does include extension signing requirement - this means that some extensions may not work. If not, I'm not exactly sure what to say - Firefox 52 does not delete profiles when you uninstall, so, even if there is trouble, it should be somewhat fixable. For the versions you are using, this Mozbackup utility should work well to make backups - If you are able to figure it out, great. ![]() ![]() Your description of the file link concerned me a little - if you didn't go to the en-US folder you might have gotten the wrong language version. Some work better if you right click them and tell them to run in compatibility mode. Lasardo wrote:Last question first - most old windows software will run on 64-bit windows, but not all. Can you run an old 32 bit program on a 64 bit machine?Īnyway, thank you gentlemen for your help. Now I realize this is not the forum for this but a simple question. But this one is pretty tried, true and tested? Now do I just click on it and run it? Is there anything I should back up before I set that working? Are we pretty confident that this update will install without any difficulties? Remember, years ago I attempted to update Firefox and the install didn't go well or the program didn't work and I was lucky to get it back to that ancient version. I will start to look into a more modern solution.īut back to my original question for a moment. I could put it on top of my desktop and figure out how to move files between them. I could get creative with a new laptop or something like that to go to the internet as you suggest. I take your advise lasardo and I truly have to look at a new computer. So you sent me back there and I clicked the very top one and there it was. Thanks lasardo, I saw the link on James response and I clicked it but when I saw all the different directories I got confused. Thank you for your help as I do appreciate it and the third alternative to this would be to not do anything at all but I would like to get back a little of the usefulness of this computer that is going away with each website that updates way beyond my old 20.0.1. ![]() So my question is two fold: 1) What would be a good version to update too that would load easily and run? 2) How do I back up my current Firefox information so it will load into the newer version? If I need something really new I have an iPad that I use and I consider it expendable if something got a hold of it and corrupted it. So I'm very careful where I go and what I click with this machine. I fully understand the security risks of these older versions that I'm taking but to maintain the old programs that I am using I don't have much choice. In doing some research I see that Firefox version 52.0 "funnelcake101 for a 32bit windows machine" might be a good stable version. About five years ago I attempted to update Firefox and this caused many issues and I was lucky to get back to the current old version I'm using now which works fine. I am running Firefox V20.0.1 and it's worked just fine until about the last six months when I started to "algorithm" exceptions and other things on different websites I have used for years that apparently have "enhanced security". I realize this is an old machine but I have old programs (that won't run on the new machines) that I use every day and it does everything that I need of a computer. I have an old Windows computer running Windows XP Professional, Version 2002, SP3. ![]()
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