HOWTO: Still Access Firefox 2 Download
[ 18 June 2008 ]
Marked under mozilla, time savers.
As just about everyone knows, yesterday Mozilla released their third major version of the Firefox browser. Though this release comes with an overwhelming amount of improvements, some people may still want to use Firefox 2. As a web developer, my company doesn’t officially support version 3 yet (even though support for it seems trivial), so I’m using Firefox 3 Portable for QA with my full Firefox 2 install still intact.
The new design of the Firefox download page doesn’t indicate older versions can be downloaded, so to get them, browse to:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
From there you can choose a version, your platform and language. For most Windows users, here’s a direct link to the latest Firefox 2 [updated 11 August 2008].
21 Comment’s on “HOWTO: Still Access Firefox 2 Download”
yes!!! i needed this cus i backed up the old profile folder and didnt seem to work using 3.0 straight from the start. so i get 2 and then update. all good with the help of google
dude this is awesome. i found myself not being too happy with 3 because the most important extension that i use was not compatible. u might know it, it is called “speak it” it basically reads for you what you highlight and you can vary the speed. so this makes research much much faster and ez
Oh please keep this link here, forever! Its so helpful, just when I needed it so badly I found it. Thank you so much, in case we need it again in the future please let it stay available for us.
omg thank you! i was looking all over for this firefox 3 slows down my noob computer so bad and it was said to be easier on the system psh
THANK YOU!!!!
i have an imac g3 and this did not work with me. after acaepting the terms and conditions it said “checksum invalid”. can anyone tell me why?
seems like the firefox fools are going the IE way of hiding older versions…..why the heck do they assume everyone would love and force FF3 them to download it ?
I for one didnt like it one bit, and am going back to FF2 for the great extensions I have…what a farce…why give this a new version number…
Thank you, I had too many problems with Firefox 3 locking up, couldn’t export/import bookmarks.
I clicked on the first link to get to version 2, but could not make heads or tails of the list of folders. Could you give a novice a little more direction. I’m using a MacBook.
Mike
For a Mac, you’d navigate to the latest release folder, 2.0.0.16, then mac, your language. Here’s the folder for English (US).
Thank you. Firefox 3 is unstable on my system, so I am really glad I found this 
Thanks. I’ve deleted FF3 within a few hours after it been installed, but couldn’t find the FF2 downloads, so I had to work with IE for a while.
BTW. Your direct link doesn’t seem to work.
So happy to find this sight. I just downloaded FF3 and it immediately crashed. It sent a report but no fix has been returned. I redownloaded FF2 and all my bookmarks etc are back, THANKS
I too had several problems with FF3. thanks so much for having this available… This version is so much better
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