| Title | Firefox 53 Will Stop Supporting Windows XP and Vista | |
| Date | Wednesday September 28 2016, @08:15AM | |
| Author | martyb | |
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| from the palemoon? dept. | ||
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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