Firefox Offline 64 Bits

[Serafin Sonnier]

Wherecan I find offline installations for Firefox? Please don't say " " like the previous 20 or so answers to this question. It simply doesn't work. All you get are Stub installers with no option to download only. I have gone as far as completely trying this and the only thing that I could achieve was to upgrade Firefox on the download computer. Why has this Full install thing been a never ending issue with Mozilla? Is it so hard to list these as well as the Installer version? Many people don't like installers.

Note that Firefox 37 will be released today if everything is according to plans, so you may want to wait for that version be be released.Note that you can copy the link to the clipboard and change firefox-stub in the link to firefox-latest to get the latest release or specify the version that you are looking for.

Thank you to all that replied. Several of the links were usable. I mostly hope that someone sees this that can effect change to make this easier to find in the future. I know that each time I try to find these installers, it gets more and more difficult to find.

Until this afternoon, when Firefox updated to 67.0, clicking on a link in Thunderbird would open a new tab in the currently running instance of Firefox. If Firefox was not running, it would open "Profile 1."

Now, Thunderbird will only open links in my "Profile 1" Firefox. If I have "Profile 2" running, Thunderbird ignores it and starts a new instance of Firefox using "Profile 1." With both instances running, Thunderbird opens a new tab in the "Profile 1" instance.

I updated to Thunderbird 60.7.0 (32-bit), but it did not change the behaviour. So, this seems to be a Firefox change. Is there a way to go back to having the running Firefox instance handle the external launch of links?

I took some time to play around with the Firefox Profile Manager, and I can sort of get back to the behaviour that I expect by un-checking the "Use the selected profile without asking at startup" box.

Basically, the currently running profile is set as the default, and Firefox uses it for any subsequent URL requests just as though the "Use the selected profile without asking at startup" box were checked in Profile Manager.

During testing, I had one URL open a new window of the currently running Firefox profile instead of opening a new tab in the currently running window of the currently running Firefox profile, but I have not been able to duplicate that. It may have been just my two profiles getting their new instructions.

If I run Firefox with "Profile 2" and then run a second instance of Firefox with "Profile 1," I get two instances of Firefox, as expected. Launching URLs uses "Profile 2," the first instance that I launched (perhaps, the first instance's "I'm the default" setting prevails?). Similarly, launching "Profile 1" and then "Profile 2" results in "Profile 1" being preferred for external URL requests. If I close the instance of Firefox that I started first, my next external request for a URL results in the Profile Manager coming up and asking which profile I want to use. If I select the still-running profile, the URL opens in a new tab in the currently running Firefox instance.

In conclusion, it is a minor annoyance to have to be prompted for my "Profile 1" Firefox profile instead of having it as the default. The larger issue appears to me to be that, whatever change was made to how profiles are handled for multiple installations, there is an unintended consequence for regular profile handling introduced in Firefox 67.0. I would like to get to the bottom of it and change the behaviour back (or have a setting to regulate the behaviour).

Right up until the moment that Firefox updated to 67.0, opening a URL, by clicking on a link in Thunderbird or Adobe Reader DC or by typing directly into Windows' "Run..." command line, would open a new tab in an already-running instance of Firefox.

That is still what happens, so long as the running instance of Firefox is using the default profile. If Firefox is running but using another profile, another instance of Firefox starts, using the default profile.

It appears that programmes (Thunderbird, at least) remember which instance of Firefox they used to launch URLs so that the Profile Manager pops up even when an instance of Firefox is already running if it is the case that Firefox is using a different profile than the last time a URL was launched.

It is possible that Firefox has switched to a new default profile.You can open the about:profiles page via the location bar to see whether multiple profiles are listed and what profile Firefox currently is using.

Previous Firefox versions used a default profile named xxxxxxxx.default with a possible time stamp added in case the refresh feature has been used.The dedicated profile feature adds the update channel to the profile name and that makes a default profile named xxxxxxxx.default-release.Each supported update channel has its own dedicated profile (Release, Beta, Developer Edition, Nightly, ESR-68) that is locked to a specific installation folder and can't be used by Firefox installed in a different folder.

Best is to transfer personal data from the old xxxxxxxx.default profile to the new xxxxxxxx.default-release profile and continue to use the new profile to avoid issues with opening links from external software in the default browser.

In most cases there aren't issues with dedicated profiles.Only if you open external links in the default browser then Firefox will probably use the .default-release profile and not the .default profile.

I do not believe that you have correctly understood what I am reporting. I have no problems using my profiles. However, Firefox 67.0 introduced a new ability, targeted at developers, to run different profiles for different installations / version, and the handling of profiles for users with a single installation but multiple profiles changed, also.

When I launch an external link, if the default profile is not Quantum, I get the dialog and need to select Quantum to open the link in the running profile. That first link opens slowly, but subsequent links open quickly.

I don't know that a lot of users have unusual configurations like you and me, but since this the new direction, it would be nice to at least document how it works, and perhaps come up with some way to ease the process of selecting the correct profile when launching an external link so an obscure settings change isn't required.

To my mind, the real issue, here, is that the behaviour changed to satisfy one use case (developers with multiple versions installed) but affected another use case (users with one version installed but multiple profiles).

I have this problem as well. We use profile names of A and B on our respective firefox start desktop icons. The default profile is rarely used until this problem reared its ugly head and we select a url while in thunderbird.

I've tried using the profile manager to look for the "Use the selected profile without asking at startup" but all I ever see is the default manager and even then I don't see any way to change anything. All I see there is a couple of folders you can open.

If you type about:profiles in the address bar, you get a screen that gives you information about your existing profiles, the ability to create a new profile, the ability to change your default profile and some restart options.

If you run Firefox with the -P option (in Windows, for example, type firefox -P in the Run... dialogue box), you get the original Profile Manager, where you also have the options "Work offline" and "Use the selected profile without asking at startup."

Because you always start your profiles from a shortcut with the profile specified, you want to run the original Profile Manager and clear (un-check) the "Use the selected profile without asking at startup" option. This way, there is no permanent default profile. Whichever profile is running temporarily becomes the default profile, and an externally launched URL (from Thunderbird, for example) will launch in the currently running Firefox, as it did, pre-67.0.

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