This was gradually accelerated further in late 2019, so that new major releases occur on four-week cycles starting in 2020. Starting with version 5.0, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks. We’re not sure how useful this will be, but it’s near instant so there’s no real penalty, and overall it’s a neat extra touch.įirefox Download Tool is a free application for Windows 7 and later.Firefox was created by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross as an experimental branch of the Mozilla browser, first released as Firefox 1.0 on November 9, 2004. Surprisingly, the program even uses the hashes to check the download with VirusTotal. Once the download is complete you’re able to view SHA1, SHA256 and MD5 hashes, maybe handy if you’d like to verify the downloads are correct.
The program defaults to the latest version and default language, keeping clicks to a minimum. You can do that by visiting Mozilla’s FTP site, but that’s awkward to use and requires you to know the code for the language you need.įirefox Download Tool is a 119KB Windows executable which enables selecting your preferred Firefox version, language and 32 or 64-bitness from a simple dialog. You have to follow an "other platform" link, maybe select a 32 or 64-bit version, or follow yet another link to work your way through a list of languages.Įven this step won’t help if you need to download an old version, maybe for testing. If you regularly need to download another build, though, life gets more complicated. Point your browser at the site, click " Free Download" and you’ll automatically get the latest version that matches your PC.
Downloading the latest version of Firefox for your PC is simple.
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