Firefox freezes immediately when opened - can't do anything!

I have Firefox on my old Dell laptop which runs Ubuntu 10.04 (I can't upgrade to newer Ubuntu version because the hardware doesn't work with it - already tried.) For some unknown reason yesterday it started freezing when I tried to use the bookmark button and the Firefox dropdown menu (so I couldn't do a manual update.) I went to the Mozilla website and found instructions to do a reset, which I did. Now it is 100% worse because I have absolutely NO browser on my laptop! The Mozilla Ubuntu page loads and then absolutely nothing after that - completely frozen. I am writing this on my desktop. As far as I know there is no other browser on Ubuntu so I can't do anything at all online. Oh, before resetting I went to the Mozilla website and tried to download the current version and it downloaded and saved a bunch of files in a Firefox folder but I couldn't get it to run or anything. Is there something I can do with that Firefox folder to make it work? Or can I download Firefox on a USB drive and install it on my laptop from the drive? Somebody please help because I have no Internet on my laptop! Thank you.

In your Firefox folder look for the Firefox binary and click on that to run it. If you can find it It should run even if not fully installed and lacking a launcher.
These are the instructions for installing Mozilla Firefox
* [[Install Firefox on Linux]]
I've got rid of my unsupported versions of Ubuntu but IIRC some old LTS versions did not update Firefox.
As for your old Dell not supporting a current version of Ubuntu: I would have thought the System requirements were pretty low. Possibly it is the Graphics and support for the fancy Unity desktop that is the problem,but you could try without that. This is not a Linux discussion forum but look at for instance
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DemystifyingUnityGraphicsHardwareRequirements
* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation#Minimal_installations

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