{"id":61712,"date":"2009-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foxtail\/2009\/08\/18\/firefox-3-users-get-a-major-update-to-firefox-3-5\/"},"modified":"2009-08-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T00:00:00","slug":"firefox-3-users-get-a-major-update-to-firefox-3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/en\/firefox\/firefox-3-users-get-a-major-update-to-firefox-3-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 3 users get a major update to Firefox 3.5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em>Editor\u2019s note: Mozilla released a major update for Firefox 3.0.x users on <\/em>Thursday, August 13th, 2009<\/em><em><em>.<\/em> Check out the Mozilla Developer News announcement, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/devnews\/index.php\/2009\/08\/13\/firefox-3-about-to-get-a-major-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reposted <\/a>below, for more details.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Users with the latest version of Firefox 3 will be getting an offer to update to Firefox 3.5. If you\u2019re running Firefox 3.0.13 you will see the offer in the next couple of days, though if you\u2019re eager you can always \u201cCheck for Updates\u201d in the \u201cHelp\u201d menu. This is what the offer will look like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-available.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none ;\" title=\"Major Update Available\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-available.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clicking the \u201cUpgrade to Firefox 3.5\u2033 link will open a new tab with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/upgrade.html\">more information about Firefox 3.5<\/a> to help you make your decision about upgrading. From there, you have a choice:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>select <strong>Later<\/strong> if you don\u2019t want to decide now; Firefox will ask again in 24 hours<\/li>\n<li>select <strong>Never<\/strong> if you don\u2019t want to accept this upgrade offer; we might send you another offer again in the future, but it won\u2019t be for several weeks or months<\/li>\n<li>select <strong>Get the new version<\/strong> to continue on with the upgrade process!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once you\u2019ve accepted that, Firefox will download and install the update, then offer to restart the browser. When you restart, you\u2019ll be rolling with Firefox 3.5!<\/p>\n<p>Now, although over 90% of Firefox add-ons have been updated to be compatible with Firefox 3.5, in some cases the authors have created entirely new versions. If that happens with your favorite add-on, you might see the following screen:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-dont-panic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none ;\" title=\"Incompatible add-on found\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-dont-panic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see exactly which add-ons are being flagged as potentially incompatible by clicking on <strong>Show List<\/strong>. As mentioned above, for most popular add-ons, there probably <em>is<\/em> an update available, but you\u2019ll need to install Firefox 3.5 first in order to check. If you continue with the update process, when Firefox 3.5 starts up for the first time you\u2019ll see the following screen:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-check-for-addon-updates.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none ;\" title=\"Check for updates to your add-ons\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-check-for-addon-updates.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By all means, <strong>Check Now<\/strong> to see if there\u2019s a version of that add-on which works with Firefox 3.5. If there is, you\u2019ll see the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-yay-addon-updates.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none ;\" title=\"An update for your add-on was found\" src=\"http:\/\/people.mozilla.org\/%7Ess\/fx35-major-update-yay-addon-updates.png\" alt=\"An update for your add-on was found\" width=\"292\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll want to <strong>Install Now<\/strong> which will fetch the update and then continue loading Firefox 3.5.<\/p>\n<p>If an update isn\u2019t available, Firefox will check every day and let you know once the add-on author has created one. If you\u2019ve come this far and decide that you can\u2019t live without your favorite add-on, you can always go to www.firefox.com and click on \u201cOther Languages and Systems\u201d, and click on the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/all-older.html\">download an older version of Firefox<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s note: Mozilla released a major update for Firefox 3.0.x users on Thursday, August 13th, 2009. Check out the Mozilla Developer News announcement, reposted below, for more details. Users with the latest version of Firefox 3 will be getting an offer to update to Firefox 3.5. 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