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Firefox 53 Will Stop Supporting Windows XP and Vista

posted by martyb on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the palemoon? dept.

number6 writes in with a story from: ghacks.net where Mozilla has reported its plans to stop supporting Firefox for Windows XP and Windows Vista:

With the release of Firefox 53 in March 2017, Mozilla plans to end mainline support for the Microsoft operating systems Windows XP and Windows Vista. This means that Firefox 52 will be the last update for those operating systems.

Mozilla explicitly mentions installations that it plans to block. It is unclear whether it plans to block execution of portable versions of Firefox as well. To extend support, they plan to migrate XP/Vista users to Firefox ESR automatically.

On Bugzilla, bug 1305453 lists the plan to stop stand-alone Firefox 53+ installers from installing Firefox on XP or Vista machines...

"We plan to eol XP/Vista by first moving those users out to ESR 52. Once 52 merges to aurora, we should land changes to the stand alone installer to prevent install by XP and Vista users. Initially there shouldn't be an issue with running but eventually we'll import a system dependency that will break browser startup."

Another bug, bug 1303827, highlights Mozilla's plan to move XP users to Firefox's ESR branch when version 52 gets released. Firefox 51 is therefore the last version of the browser that is not ESR.

Are there any Soylentils who still run Firefox on one of these OS's? What are you planning to do? Have you considered swapping to another browser? If so, which one(s)?

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:22AM (#407275)

    Firefux sux

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:35AM (#407280)

    Windows sux

    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @09:13AM (#407295)

      Android is Best Linux

      All these Linux sux except Android

      Attempt no Installs of Other Linux

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @10:43AM (#407323)

        But android is not linux. Where is my wheel account?
        Or is it that the owner of my device doesn't trust me with that level of access

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @11:03AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @11:03AM (#407333)

          You're wrong. Android has a Linux kernel. It's Linux. If you mean it's not GNU, you're still wrong. GNU doesn't have a wheel group. RMS believed there shouldn't be a group of elites and anyone who knows the root password should be able to su. Of course everyone does an end run around RMS by not setting a root password, instead defining an elite group of sudoers and using sudo. Which is super ironic because RMS used to be famous for advocating blank passwords for freedom, and now blank passwords are used as tools of oppression.

        • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday September 28 2016, @02:57PM

          by DECbot (832) on Wednesday September 28 2016, @02:57PM (#407418) Journal

          For all those people out there that emphasized that it is GNU/Linux and that it really does matter, let it be know that they were right.
          grumble, grumble, mutter, Stallman! grumble, grumble, his lawn.... I'll show him a lawn! grumble, grumble...

          --
          cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:32PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2016, @04:32PM (#407491)

            Here, we have numerous systems that are Linux, but not GNU. One of the guys here will talk to you for hours about the benefits of using Musl and BusyBox on your Linux system. Come to think of it, he probably got the ability to run the boxes like that through attrition.