Sherry, I'm the guy who explained that you can have two different versions
of Firefox on your computer at the same time: the regular version, which you
are currently using, and the portable version, which you must install. I
suggest that you simply leave your regular version of Firefox 19 intact
because unless you roll all the way back to Firefox 3.6, it will keep
updating itself back to Firefox 19 every time you launch it. So leave
Firefox 19 alone and use it to access web sites that you know it works with.
Instead, download the portable version of Firefox 15 from the site below and
use it to access those sites with which Firefox 19 is giving you trouble.
Installing the portable version of Firefox 15 will not overlay your existing
regular version of Firefox 19, and it will work exactly like the regular
version of Firefox 15. You can even create a shortcut key to launch it once
you have installed it. I misspoke in my earlier post, though. Although you
can have both regular and portable versions of Firefox on your computer at
the same time, you cannot run them at the same time; you can only run one
version of Firefox at a time, although you can run either the regular or
portable version of Firefox at the same time as IE. You can download the
portable version of Firefox 15 from:
http://mozilla-firefox-portable.en.uptodown.com/old
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sharon Gosling" <[email protected]>
To: "jawslist" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 7:07 AM
Subject: [JAWS-Users] How do I prevent Firefox from automatically upgrading
Since Firefox 19 constantly freezes using my Win 7 64 bit Dell laptop with
Jaws 14 I reinstalled Firefox 15 which was the original version I had
installed. I checked and it said Firefox 15. I went through all the
options and could not find any that mentioned automatic upgrades.
But when I opened Firefox the next time it just said “Upgrading” and it
went back to 19. No choice offered at all.
So how do I make it stay at version 15?
I really need it for at least 6 websites that I frequently use.
When Firefox freezes it won’t quit with any keystrokes including Alt
control escape or alt control delete or alt F4 or anything else.
I have to restart the computer and that is a royal pain.
I was advised in a previous message that one could have several different
versions of Firefox on the computerat the same time.
When I installed Firefox 15 after having Firefox 19 already on the
computer it replaced the version 19. I went to the control panel remove
programs and checked the list to see which versions showed up and it only
showed version 15 so I assumed it had replaced the version 19.
But the first time I tried using it after that it went back to 19.
Help, please.
Sherrie Gosling
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