358007 - please put link to firefox 1.5.x back on main website

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[t35t0r t35t0r]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

firefox 2.0 breaks some plugins. Some people may want to downgrade to the previous 1.5 version until things work with 2.0. The link to the most recent previous 1.5 version should be maintained somewhere on the main http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ website.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/

Actual Results:  
Only download link to firefox 2.0 is available

Expected Results:  
should have link to 2.0 and perhaps older releases e.g. 1.5

Comment 1

[Paul Kim]

For a number of reasons, primarily focused on ensuring our users have the latest security and stability updates, we haven't provided direct links to prior releases of Firefox on mozilla.com, just to the current shipping version.

You can find archived versions of Firefox here:
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

Comment 2

[Paul Kim]

We've been getting a number of requests for links to 1.5.x versions of Firefox -- and have now added a link to archived older releases of Firefox at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html (down at the bottom of the page). Hope this helps.