Mozilla now offers
Firefox with a web installer. It is called stub installer. This means that the
user downloads Firefox setup stub instead of the complete offline installer.
The initial download is about 300 KB but when you run the web installer, it will
start downloading the latest version of Firefox.
The issue with web
installer is that it cannot be used to install Firefox on the system where
there is no Internet access. If you are a single user, it is beneficial for you
to download Firefox stub installer as it will download the latest version of
Firefox.
But if you want to
install Firefox on multiple computers, it is probably wise to download an
offline installer. This will save you a lot of bandwidth as the setup will not
be downloaded again and again as in case of stub installer.
There are two ways
to download the latest Firefox complete offline installer. One is using the
official Mozilla FTP servers and second is to use the Mozilla’s website.
Downloading offline installer using FTP
You will need to go
to the releases directory to get the latest stable release of Firefox. You will
find all versions of Firefox from the beginning including the stable and beta
versions. Each version has its own directory. You will need to go to the
directory of latest version of Firefox.
To recognize the
latest version, you can scroll to the end of the list and see which version
number doesn’t have a letter ‘b’ in its name. For example, right now the latest
release of Firefox is Firefox 22. So you will need to go to 22.0 directory.
If you want to
download Firefox for Windows, you can go to win32 directory and download
Firefox offline installer in the appropriate language as specified by each
directory. Likewise, for Linux, you can go to linux x86_64 and for Mac OSX, you
can go to the mac directory.
Downloading Firefox using Mozilla.org
The second method is easier than the first one. First go to firefox.com and instead of clicking the download button, click “Systems &
languages” link just below the download button. This will open another webpage
listing down all the languages and their corresponding Firefox downloads for
each Operating System including Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
Just find your
language and click on the corresponding Download button. This will download
Firefox offline installer instead of the stub installer.
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