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A while back I wrote about the Netscape product archive which proves to be helpful when you get an old and odd browser test request. FireFox used to make their browser archive easy to find back in the day when their list of browser versions was small. The other day I needed to revert from 1.5 back to 1.0.7 to do some regression testing on Intelligent Authentication. I couldn't find the archived versions from the menus and links on the FireFox.com site. Google searches eventually unearthed the "magic" link that pointed to the curb that the old versions had been kicked to. Going through the search and discover motions I found a few other valuable links that I bookmarked too. Here are all the links:
FireFox download archive:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
FireFox release list:
http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/releases/
Unofficial change log archive:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/releases/
Also, did you know that you can install multiple versions of FireFox on the same machine without any big issues (much like the old Netscape). You can do this by just installing into separate directories. While testing, keep in mind that the installations share the same cache. The only issue that I encountered was that when I had 1.5 installed and then installed 1.0, 1.0 overwrites all the 1.5 desktop and start menu icons with 1.0 icons even though the options are unselected in the installer. Double checking the version number through the Help menu ensures that you are testing in the version that you intend to (sometimes this can get confusing if you don't manage and separate the installs very well). I've been doing this with Netscape versions for years now and have never been burned; FireFox smells the same way (I found issues in 1.5 that weren't in 1.0, indicating the installs are truly independent). I currently have the following browsers installed on my test machine and do not experience conflicts while doing browser compatibility testing:
- Internet Explorer 6
- FireFox 1.0.7
- FireFox 1.5
- Netscape 4.79
- Netscape 6.0
- Netscape 7.2
- Netscape 8.0
- Opera 8.5
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