{"id":16362,"date":"2011-04-07T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T10:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=16362"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:02:14","slug":"how-to-downgrade-to-firefox-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-downgrade-to-firefox-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Downgrade to Firefox 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefox 4<\/strong><\/a> has lots of improvements, but many users are reporting crashes and web pages failing to load. If you want to downgrade to Firefox 3<\/strong> until all your add-ons are updated and stability issues are fixed, here’s how:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1<\/strong>: Open options<\/strong>, by clicking the orange Firefox tab, and choosing Options from the menu. In the options window click Advanced<\/strong>, and then the Updates<\/strong> tab. Here you need to uncheck ‘Automatically check for updates to Firefox’. This will ensure Firefox 3.6 doesn’t immediately update itself later on!<\/p>\n

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2<\/strong>: Now you have to download Firefox 3<\/strong> – the last version can be found here at Softonic<\/strong><\/a> or at Mozilla’s site<\/strong><\/a>. Double click the file ‘Firefox Setup 3.6.16’, and follow onscreen instructions.\u00a0 You will have to close Firefox 4 now – say goodbye! When you reach the screen below, click ‘Upgrade<\/strong>‘ – don’t worry, you are actually downgrading<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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3<\/strong>: Relaunch Firefox<\/strong>. You will now discover Firefox 3 is back, and as automatic updates are disabled, it will stay back. While there maybe some issues with Firefox 4 now, we are sure they will be quickly ironed out, and your favorite add-ons will soon be compatible too.<\/p>\n

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When you upgrade to Firefox 4 again, and we recommend you do, it will automatically warn you if any of your add-ons are not compatible, and check if there are newer versions that are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Firefox 4 has lots of improvements, but many users are reporting crashes and web pages failing to load. If you want to downgrade to Firefox 3 until all your add-ons are updated and stability issues are fixed, here’s how: 1: Open options, by clicking the orange Firefox tab, and choosing Options from the menu. In … Continue reading “How to: Downgrade to Firefox 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[2973],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-16362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfirefox-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334329,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16362\/revisions\/334329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=16362"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=16362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}