To Dave: Please evaluate Pale Moon browser as well (it’s a highly optimized fork from Firefox with support to NPAPI and the classic XUL extensions, please keep reading to know more. To Gary H: Very sad? Yes, but you have alternatives, if you want to look for them, to know one alternative (a very good one, IMHO), please read the rest. Some add-ons or features may not be yet available because of the nature of ESR releases. Please note though that Firefox 45.x ESR may not support certain features yet that Mozilla implemented in Firefox 46 to 51. The new installation will pick up the profile that you used up until now. The release is on March 7, 2017.Īnother option that you have is to install Firefox ESR directly on your system, and start using it. Mike notes that you should make the change as close to the release of Firefox 52 ESR as possible. C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox.ĪCCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=firefox-mozilla-releaseĪCCEPTED_MAR_CHANNEL_IDS=firefox-mozilla-esr It is located in the root folder of the Firefox installation, e.g. The second file that you need to modify is update-settings.ini. Pref("", "esr") Step 2: Modify update-settings.ini Open the file in a plain text editor, and replace the line C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\prefs\channel-prefs.js You find the file under defaults\prefs\, e.g.
32-bit Firefox Windows - C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\.You find the file in the Firefox installation directory on your system. Step 1: Update channel-prefs.jsįirst thing you do is update the file channel-prefs.js. Mike Kaply published a guide recently that explains how to switch the update channel from Firefox Stable to Firefox ESR. Another option that you have is to install a Firefox ESR release next to Firefox Stable, and use it exclusively for sites and services that require plugins.
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