homebrew-firefox

Summary

Note: now serving up to Firefox 56

An Homebrew Cask tap for installing older Firefox versions. Forked from smclernon and updated to work with new Cask header style.

Dependencies

It is assumed that brew and cask have already been installed. If not refer to the quick start commands below (refer to the linked sites for further explanation).

Install brew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Install cask

brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

Installing the firefox casks

brew tap goldcaddy77/homebrew-firefox
brew cask install firefox-34
brew cask install firefox-35
brew cask install firefox-36
brew cask install firefox-37
...
brew cask install firefox-53
brew cask install firefox-54
brew cask install firefox-55
brew cask install firefox-56

Uninstalling the casks

brew cask uninstall firefox-34
brew cask uninstall firefox-35
brew cask uninstall firefox-36
brew cask uninstall firefox-37
...
brew cask uninstall firefox-53
brew cask uninstall firefox-54
brew cask uninstall firefox-55
brew cask uninstall firefox-56

Adding new versions

See Adding New Versions

Auto updates

At present, these firefox installations will honour your existing preferences for firefox updates. So by default it will try and update automatically. To stop this happening go to firefox preferences, select update tab and select "Never check for updates".