Why use an older version of Google Chrome?Google only provides an online setup file for Google Chrome which installs the latest version of Google Chrome. It happens frequently that a user upgrades to a new version of Google Chrome and gets upset by an unpleasant feature, a missing option or an annoying bug.
Therefore, some users want to roll back to an older version of Google Chrome to preserve a useful feature, option or support some legacy technology. However, is it really wise to use an out-dated verison of Google Chrome? The answer is NO since out-dated browsers usually come with security issues.
A better solution to the problem is to use Slimjet browser, which runs on the latest Blink engine while offering more flexibity, features and options compared with Google Chrome. With Slimjet, we give users more choices to tune their browser to their own personal preference instead of forcing a majority style on everyone.
Slimjet also integrates more features internally in the most efficient way so that you don't have to spend time dealing with unstable and resource-consuming third-party plugins. Best of all, Slimjet syncs all your Chrome data and settings via your Google account and is compatible with your favorite Chrome extensions. There is absolutely no learning curve for you to switch from Chrome to Slimjet.
Give Slimjet a try now and you will never look back!For users who insist on using an old version of Google Chrome and becoming vulnerable to security issues, you can find the right version of Google Chrome to download for your platform in the following sections. Support of Java, Silverlight and NPAPI pluginsUnfortunately, we only started to archive old versions of Chrome since Chrome 48. Chrome dropped support for Java, silverlight and other NPAPI plugins in Chrome 45. If you are looking for an old version of Chrome with support of Java, silverlight or other NPAPI plugins, you would have to use, which is based on Chromium and retains support of Java, silverlight and other NPAPI plugins.
Google Chrome Windows versionThe old versions of Chrome before V58 are packed as 7zip self-extracting executable. Just run the executable and extract the files under any folder on your hard drive. Then launch Google chrome with chrome.exe under the extraction folder. After V59, the archived chrome old version files are official Chrome offline installers.
Just uninstall any current version of Chrome first and then run the downloaded installer. It's a one-click installer without any interactive UI.
This box:.Market Share OverviewAccording to StatCounter dataSeptember 2019Browser% of Fx% of Total——————–————0.45%0.02%——0.45%0.02%0.45%0.02%2.47%0.11%5.39%0.24%3.60%0.16%0.45%0.02%0.23%0.01%0.45%0.02%0.45%0.02%1.12%0.05%1.35%0.06%1.35%0.06%20.23%0.90%56.18%2.50%1.57%0.07%————100%4.45%was created by and as an experimental branch of the browser, first released the on November 9, 2004. Since, a rapid release cycle was put into effect, resulting in a new major version release every six weeks on Tuesday. Is the latest version released on September 3, 2019. Main article: Rapid releasesIn April 2011, the development process was split into several 'channels', each working on a build in a different.
The most recent available build is called 'Nightly Builds' and offers the latest, untested features and updates. The 'Aurora' build is up to six weeks behind 'Nightly' and offers functionality that has undergone basic testing. As of version 35, the 'Aurora' channel has been renamed to the 'Developer Edition' channel. The 'Beta' channel is up to six weeks behind the 'Aurora' build, for up to about twelve week period compared to the most recent 'Nightly' build. The 'Beta' channel provides improved stability over the 'Nightly' builds and is the first development milestone that has the 'Firefox' logo. 'Release' is the current official version of Firefox. Gecko version numbering is same as Firefox build version number, starting 5.0 on Firefox 5.The stated aim of this faster-paced process is to get new features to users faster.
This accelerated release cycle was met with criticism by users, as it often broke add-on compatibility, as well as those who believe Firefox was simply trying to increase its version number to compare with other browsers such as. Firefox 5 through 9Firefox 5 was released on June 21, 2011, three months after the major release of Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is the first release in Mozilla's new rapid release plan, matching 's rapid release schedule and rapid version number increments. Firefox 5 has significantly improved the speed of web-related tasks, such as loading pages with. Mozilla also integrated the standard into the browser, allowing playback of WebM video.Firefox 6 released on August 16, 2011, introducing permissions manager, new address bar highlighting (the is black while the rest of the is gray ), streamlining the look of the site identity block, quicker startup time, a ScratchPad JavaScript compiler, and many other new features.
This update also brought the infamous feature that JavaScript entered in the address bar does not run.Firefox 7 released on September 27, 2011, uses as much as 50% less than Firefox 4 as a result of the MemShrink project to reduce Firefox memory usage.Firefox 7.0.1 was released a few days later, fixing a rare, but serious, issue with add-ons not being detected by the browser. Some URLs are trimmed in the address bar, so the '://' scheme no longer appears, but '://' is still displayed. Trailing slashes on domains are also hidden, for example: becomes 8 released on November 8, 2011 prompts users about any previously installed add-ons. Upon installation, a prompted users to enable or disable the add-ons. Add-ons installed by third-party programs were disabled by default, but user-installed add-ons were enabled by default. Logo used from Firefox 23 to Firefox 56Firefox 17 and Firefox ESR 17 were released on November 20, 2012.
It was not planned to bring as many user-facing features as previous releases, it brings improved display of location bar results, improvements to the silent update mechanism for users with incompatible add-ons, and refinements to the Click-To-Play system introduced in Firefox 14. A new feature for developers, an HTML tree editor is also included. Firefox 17 is the first version of the browser that uses SpiderMonkey 17.Starting with Firefox 17, Mac OS X support is exclusively for, Lion, and.Firefox 18 was released on January 8, 2013. A new feature for Firefox 18 is, Mozilla's next generation JavaScript engine, it also uses some functions of.Firefox 19 was released on February 19, 2013, featuring a built-in viewer.Firefox 20 was released on April 2, 2013, introduced a panel-based download manager, along with H.264 decoding on the tag (on Windows only), and per-window private browsing (per-tab private browsing on Android).
It also includes a new developer toolbox, that combines all developer tools into one panel.Firefox 21 was released on May 14, 2013. The Social API now supports multiple providers, enhanced three-state UI for Do Not Track (DNT).Firefox 22 was released on June 25, 2013. Is now enabled by default.Partial CSS Flexbox support added (flex-wrap support is currently scheduled for Firefox 28 ). A new feature for Firefox 22 was OdinMonkey, Mozilla's next generation JavaScript engine.Firefox 23 was released on August 6, 2013. It includes an updated Firefox logo, mixed content blocking enabled by default to defend against, implementation of the form control attribute in HTML5, dropping support for the as well as text-decoration:blink, the restriction to have to 'switch to a different search provider across the entire browser', and a global browser console, a new network monitor among other things.
JavaScript is automatically enabled by the update, without regard to the previous setting, and the ability to turn it off has been removed from the interface; the 'contentious' change was made because many websites depend on JavaScript and it was felt that users unaware that they had disabled JavaScript were attributing the resulting unpredictable to in Firefox. Firefox 29 with Australis interface, running onFirefox 24 and Firefox 24 ESR were released on September 17, 2013. The release includes support for the new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 (and newer), closing tabs to the right, an improved browser console for debugging, and improved SVG rendering, among other things. It is the first version of the browser that uses SpiderMonkey 24.Firefox 25 was released on October 29, 2013. Firefox 25 Nightly was at one point slated to include the Australis theme, but Australis did not actually land on Nightly until Firefox 28, did not make it to Firefox 28 Aurora channel, and was finally available with Firefox 29. This release added support for attribute, background-attachment:local in CSS, along with API support, separate find bar for each tab and many other bug fixes.Firefox 26 was released December 10, 2013.
Firefox 26 changed the behavior of plugins to 'click-to-play' mode instead of automatically running them. It also added support for on Linux, password manager support for script-generated fields, and the ability for Windows users without advanced write permissions to update Firefox, as well as many bug fixes and developer-related changes.Firefox 27 was released on February 4, 2014. It adds improved Social API and 3.1 support, as well as enabling of TLS 1.1 and 1.2 by default. Also, it brings many bug fixes, security improvements, and developer-related changes.Firefox 28 was released on March 18, 2014.
It added support for VP9 video decoding and support for Opus in WebM. For, features such as predictive lookup from the address bar, quick share buttons and support for were added.Firefox 29 was released on April 29, 2014 and includes the Australis interface, it also removes the add-on bar and moves its content to the navigation bar.Firefox 30 was released on June 10, 2014. It adds support for 1.0 and a new sidebar button, and most plugins are not activated by default. Logo used from Firefox 57Firefox 52 and Firefox 52 ESR were released on March 7, 2017 for desktop (both) and Android (no ESR).
An important aspect of Firefox ESR 52.0 is that it is the first ESR version based on (Firefox 48) code base. Firefox 52 added support for (while disabled in Firefox ESR 52), an emerging standard that brings near-native performance to Web-based games, apps, and software libraries without the use of plugins; automatic detection, for easier access to Wi-Fi hotspots; user warnings for non-secure HTTP pages with logins (desktop); and display of media controls to pause or resume playback on the Android notification bar. Firefox 52 dropped support for plugins like and Java with the exception of Adobe Flash Player (except the ESR version which still supports NPAPI).Firefox 53 was released on April 19, 2017 for both desktop and Android.