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For people who want the full old-Firefox experience, you can use the ESR or just manually install an old version instead. I personally hate the new UI and installing an extension isn't exactly the greatest solution.

• RPMFusion repository is not available for CentOS 7 yet. Keep in mind RHEL7 and CentOS 7 were just released. There is a beta repository for EPEL here

• The best answer here is no. If you want to always keep the newest versions of these packages, you should look to Fedora, or a rolling release distro such as Arch. CentOS and RHEL freeze package versions to maintain stability for long term support, and they only issue bugfixes. I suppose it would be possible to build KDE yourself, but that is not always an easy process. Firefox is typically kept up to the ESR release. Firefox 31 will apparently be the next ESR release, and it comes out in a couple weeks.

• Yes, you can update the open source drivers, which would mean updating your kernel. This would require updating your kernel to a non-supported version (3.10 is the long term support version with CentOS 7). RPM's for newer kernels may become available as RPM's for CentOS later on.

It sounds like you should look at using another distribution if you are wanting the newest available kernel and KDE version. CentOS is about long term stability, not having the latest and greatest. The more you change this by adding newer software, the more you risk affecting the stability and security of your system.

I accidentally updated to FF29 and to my horror the entire UI had turned into one giant mess of UI elements and ruined my entire customization, thankfully switching back to FF28 restored my customization.
Either considering switching to Firefox:ESR or one of the alternatives(Waterfox/Pale Moon) since I can't(and won't) leave FF.

If you're dead-set on not upgrading, I would heavily recommend trying the Extended Support Release. Also note that versions of Firefox (and thus Pale Moon) older than 14, soon 15 are unsupported and as such do have critical security issues, some of which have since been published publicly. ESR gets security patches, but older unsupported versions naturally do not.

Version numbers are a red herring. Firefox would be on a six-week release schedule whether or not we called it v4.11 or v15. Now that silent updates (disableable, naturally) and the improvements for upgrading with addons are in, it should be much smoother sailing.

There is no point going back to to un supported version of Firefox. If anything, your experience will be worse and un safe. I would suggest and always suggest to folks to submit a bug report on bugzilla so we can help fix it. Do search for your issue too. Most times you are not alone.

Otherwise I would suggest you install the ESR version of Firefox. Firefox ESR

Hope this helps

Hi.. Mozilla employee here, and as a Mozilla employee I'd like to say that we -do- see businesses as a key 'customer'. What you pointed to was a comment on a blog post made by another Mozilla employee.

We have an extended support release and have an enterprise working group that you are invited (and encouraged) to contribute to.

I can see how his comment was so quickly picked up and interpreted as "Mozilla policy" but believe me when I say that it pissed a lot of us off inside just as much.

(disclaimer: like I point out that the offending comment can't be taken as official Mozilla stance or policy, so can't my comment.. But I hope you see our open door policy to this issue as showing support rather than snubbing that whole user base)

Using outdated software is a security risk. Especially when the software is open source and they openly log the issues. Your virus protection isn't going to help with that, it will just help if the security issues lead to viruses showing up on your computer, but that isn't exactly common. More likely, your private and important information will be stolen: Such as bank account information.

Switch to Firefox Extended Release, which doesn't update the UI but does update for security risks, use something like Classic Theme Restorer to undo the changes you don't like. If you don't you are at a huge risk.

edit: If anyone thinks I'm wrong here, feel free to say how. AFAIK what I've said here is correct.

Just because you don't see any changes doesn't mean nothing is going on. a lot of it is engine changes that are added overtime. Firefox's verson system changed because they spent months to years trying to make everything work at once instead of just releasing it as it was stable like Google chrome does.

I do believe that they are planning to have long term ESR releases as well for enterprise though. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

Pale Moon is based on Firefox ESR, which is currently locked on v24. While they are to update to the next ESR when it's released the main guy hates Australis, so what will happen is somewhat of an unknown.

The possibility definitively exists, but it doesn't seem to be a very high priority right now. We have an enterprise working group, with a mailing list here http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ where we've had some discussions about this.

Mozilla however is primarily focused on the end user experience - so unless that experience is significantly furthered by the development of a MSI installer, it's not likely to get paid developer time. That said well-written patches to implement this would probably be accepted, since this has been on the wishlist for a while https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231062

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As an open source project, there are lots of people working on firefox. The people making 3d webpages probably aren't the same people working on ESR.

Wrong wording but its called the Firefox Extended Support Release

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