Mozilla Firefox 54 has been released and is available for download and installation. Few new features. For Firefox 54. Download Firefox 54 for Windows 32-bit.
I have posted the question on mozilla.org but it doesn't sound like I can look forward to an answer any time soon, although I had imagined that an answer to this would be quite easy to give for Mozillians, so I'm posting a summary of it here, where I am hopeful to have better luck.
For the record, the reason why I want FF 32-bit is that I want to use addons that won't install or work on FF 64-bit which I currently have, on Windows 10 Home.
As it is now, I would be very happy even just to be pointed to a page on mozilla.org where I can download FF 32-bit for Windows, as I don't like the idea of downloading FF from anywhere else, for safety reasons.Anyway, here are more details of what I unsuccesfully tried.
1) I go to https://www.mozilla.org, which becomes https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/ . I click 'Firefox' and I am at https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/ .
2) I click 'Firefox for Other Platforms and Languages' and I get a dialog where I click 'Windows 32-bit'. I get 'Firefox Installer.exe'. I realize that that '32-bit' caption refers to the OS and not FF but I assume that if that's the FF for a 32-bit OS then it must be a 32-bit FF.
3) I close and uninstall FF 64-bit from Control Panel.
4) I run that 'Firefox Installer.exe' and after the install process I do have FF again, but it's still the 64-bit version. It has even remembered my session and bookmarks and I am even still logged in to sites I was logged in to before uninstalling (those for which I had asked to be kept logged in).
I tried that same process many times, by downloading FF with FF itself and with other browsers. I have even unistalled a 'Mozilla Maintenance Service' I found in Control Panel, in case it was it that was forcing the 64-bit version to be installed, but no.
I also tried to click 'Available languages' in the dialog at point 2, clicked on 'Download' at row 'English (British)' and column 'Windows' (NOT the 'Windows 64-bit' at its right), that gave me 'Firefox Setup 55.0.2.exe', but this installer too produces the same result (I end up with the 64-bit version again).
No error messages ever appear at any point.
I was unable to find on mozilla.org any link to the 32-bit FF download for Windows. Does it mean that on a 64-bit Windows the only option is to install 64-bit FF? I don't think so, but I don't know what else to try.
SantiBailorsSantiBailors
3 Answers
Down't run the stub installer, which downloads the files at setup. Use the traditional full offline installer from the Archive Server.
For the current Firefox 55.0.3 get the installer
Firefox Setup 55.0.3.exe
from here (en-US).Run this installer and this installs the 32Bit version.
magicandre1981magicandre1981
It is very normal for Firefox to keep your data when uninstalling.
Just because you get your browser history and stuff back doesn't mean you are actually ending up with the 64 build of firefox.
According to what you post, you should indeed now have firefox 32-bit.
One dead giveaway is that it installs itself into the
C:Program Files (x86)
folder, not the C:Program Files
folder.Also, from firefox, help -> info / about (something like that) should confirm you are indeed using the x86 (32-bit) version, not the x64 (64-bit) version.
LPChipLPChip
I found this on mozilla.org which says:
If you prefer to stay with 32-bit Firefox after the 64-bit migration, you can simply download and re-run the Firefox 32-bit installer from the Firefox platforms and languages download page
Anyway, that 'platforms and languages download page' is the one I mentioned in the question, where I had clicked on 'Download' at row 'English (British)' and column 'Windows' (NOT the 'Windows 64-bit' at its right), that gave me 'Firefox Setup 55.0.2.exe' which had still given me FF64.
But now, clicking the same, it gives me a new version, which apparently became available in the meantime, that is 'Firefox Setup 55.0.3.exe', and this time when I do exactly the same but with that new installer, I do get FF32. But I am sure that even before, in that 'platforms and languages download page', I was clicking the column 'Windows', NOT the 'Windows 64-bit' at its right, and I was getting 'Firefox Setup 55.0.2.exe' resulting in FF64.
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Note: Mozilla began to automatically switch users from 32-bit Firefox to 64-bit Firefox, with the update to Firefox version 56.0.1 on October 9, 2017. For more information, see this Mozilla blog post and the Firefox Win64 Mozilla Wiki. If you prefer to use 32-bit Firefox, see How to opt out of 32-bit Firefox migration to 64-bit.
The 64-bit version of Firefox can provide better performance than the 32-bit version. Want to switch to the 64-bit version of Firefox? Just install the 64-bit version and uninstall the 32-bit version. Your Firefox user data (passwords, bookmarks, settings, extensions and themes, etc.) will not be removed.
- 64-bit Firefox requires a 64-bit version of Windows 7 or higher. To find out if you are running a 64-bit version of Windows, visit this Microsoft help page.
- 64-bit Firefox only supports the Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight NPAPI plugins. See this article about changes in Firefox plugin support.
Follow these steps to switch to 64-bit Firefox:
- Go to this Mozilla Firefox download page and click on the Windows 64-bit download link.
- Run the setup file you've just downloaded and follow the prompts to install the 64-bit version of Firefox.
- Close Firefox.
- Now it's time to remove the 32-bit version. Open the Windows Start menu and click on SettingsControl Panel. Open the SystemPrograms panel, then select the Apps & features tabPrograms and Features panel.
- Scroll down the list of appsprograms until you find the Mozilla Firefox item that contains x86 in the name. Select it, and click .
- Follow the prompts in the Uninstall Wizard to complete the removal of the 32-bit version.