Unlike the standard Firefox, each ESR version receives only security updates during its tenure. 4.įirefox ESR, for "Extended Support Release," is a version Mozilla issues to customers - primarily business users - who value stability over sexy new features. That version was supplanted by Firefox ESR 60.2 on Sept. Support for the two past-expiration-date OSes - Microsoft dropped Windows XP in April 2014, Vista in April 2017 - ended with Firefox ESR 52.9, which was released June 26.
"It meant we couldn't do other things, since we were busy with XP." "It required effort, and it required devoting resources to supporting XP well after Microsoft stopped doing so," Chris Hutten-Czapski, a Firefox engineer, said in a Sept. Windows Vista: Click the Start button, open "Default Programs" and then click "Associate a file type or protocol with a program".Mozilla last week shut down Firefox's support for Windows XP and Windows Vista, ending browser security updates for the outdated operating systems. Then, click on "File Types" in the left column under the heading "See Also". In Windows XP, if using the Control Panel "Category View": Click on "Performance and Maintenance". In Windows 2000 and earlier, or if Windows XP is using the Control Panel "Classic View": Click on "Folder Options -> File Types". If the above doesn't work or if the "Set Program Access and Defaults" feature isn't available in your Windows version, you can manually set the default browser by selecting it as the the default program for individual file types and protocols as follows: Windows XP and earlier: Open the Control Panel from the Windows Start menu. Select "Mozilla" (Suite), "SeaMonkey" or "Mozilla Firefox" (in some cases, "Mozilla Firefox" may not be listed to add it back, reinstall Firefox ). Windows 2000: "Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults" Windows XP: "Start -> Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults -> Custom" Windows Vista: "Start -> Default Programs -> Set Program Access and Computer Defaults -> Custom" (Windows XP/Vista: Click the icon to the right of "Custom", to expand the category.) You will see Internet Explorer and other installed browsers listed under "Choose a default Web browser". Setting default browser manually You can set the default browser in Windows 2000 (SP3+) Windows XP (SP1+) and Windows Vista using the "Set Program Access and Defaults" feature (renamed "Set Program Access and Computer Defaults" in Windows Vista). on your computer) document - see this article. Warning: note that this doing tweak may muck up any links in Office document to a bookmark location in another locally-saved (i.e. I've tested it in XP Service Pack 2 and Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2003, but it also seems to work in Word, Excel and Powerpoint 20 versions too. So now you can click links embedded in Word, Excel etc files and they'll in Firefox instead of IE. It seems that what registry change does is to force hyperlinks in various Office documents to open according to what's been set for their file associations (in Windows Explorer, Tools, Folder Options, File Types). And of course you'll need to allow Word, Excel etc to access the internet through your firewall if you haven't already. If links still don't open in Firefox after you've re-opened Word etc, try rebooting.reg files - just click the link and run it or save then run it, saying Yes to let to change your registry).
reg file I uploaded earlier ( how to use online. You can instead - after you backup your registry first, and this is definitely at your own risk! - close all Office programs, then try this. If step 2 was gobbledygook to you, not to worry.in that subkey create a new DWORD value named ForceShellExecute with a value of 1 (or change its value from 0 to 1 if that value already exists).in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\ create a subkey called Internet if it's not already there.(Non-geeks, skip to item 3 for the easy way!) Make this registry edit having closed all Office apps first (NB, usual warnings: backup your registry first, and you edit or change your registry at your own risk! also don't know if it'll work in Vista):.Change your file associations so that hyperlinks generally open in Firefox.Here's a tip for how you can make links in a Word etc document open in Firefox when you click the link - in Windows XP at least:
Word, Excel and Powerpoint) documents to open in the fab free browser Firefox instead when you click (or Ctrl-click) on a hyperlink that's shown in a Word document or Excel spreadsheet etc. But you can force links in Microsoft Office (i.e. Links which appear in Office documents, like in the screenshot of Word above, normally open in Internet Explorer when you click them - even after you've set Outlook email links to open in Firefox.