{"id":931,"date":"2012-05-08T21:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=931"},"modified":"2012-05-08T21:55:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T21:55:13","slug":"it-is-possible-to-downgrade-firefox-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2012\/05\/it-is-possible-to-downgrade-firefox-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Possible To Downgrade Firefox After All"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Stuck with a nasty memory leak somewhere in a large AJAX-driven application that only shows up in Firefox, and no native tools with which to diagnose it, I decided to give DynaTrace AJAX Edition<\/a> a go.<\/p>\n

DynaTrace recently added support for Firefox 11 but, unfortunately, Mozilla's ridiculous high-speed release process means the major version number was bumped just over a month later to 12. The automatic upgrades that force themselves on me when I launch Firefox(1)<\/sup> mean I was on Firefox 12 almost immediately, and all this put together means that I couldn't use DynaTrace.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, we can downgrade Firefox by locating the desired release from Mozilla's FTP site<\/a>(2)<\/sup> and installing it. As long as you don't go too far back in the release list, profiles should be reasonably safe from the downgrade; in this case, going from Firefox 12 to Firefox 11 was painless… and I got to enjoy the awesomeness of DynaTrace AJAX Edition.<\/p>\n

Firefox will immediately begin downloading the latest version the next time you launch it, and will upgrade the time after that. So, at this point, it's worth going into Tools->Options and disabling automatic upgrades like I should have done originally.<\/p>\n

It's time that Mozilla stopped this nonsense; incrementing the major version number so often is causing a tangible nightmare with add-on compatibility, and I cannot understand why the Firefox development team leads do not appear to care.<\/p>\n

\n

Note 1:<\/em> Hey, Mozilla! When I launch my browser, it's because I want to visit a website, not because I want to upgrade the browser.
\nNote 2:<\/em> "uk" stands for Ukraine, not the UK. You're looking for "en-gb", which I should already know. I mean, who was I kidding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stuck with a nasty memory leak somewhere in a large AJAX-driven application that only shows up in Firefox, and no native tools with which to diagnose it, I decided to give DynaTrace AJAX Edition a go. Unfortunately, Mozilla's ridiculous high-speed release process means I was stuck on an unsupported bleeding-edge browser version… or so I thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[40,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}