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Firefox gives up on XP and Vista

by on05 October 2017


Not worth the effort

Big Cheeses at the Mozorella Foundation have announced today plans to stop all support for the Firefox browser on Windows XP and Vista in June 2018.

Earlier this year, Mozilla already moved Firefox users on XP and Vista machines to the Firefox 52 ESR (Extended Support Release). The move of XP and Vista users to Firefox ESR was previously announced in December 2016, when Mozilla also said it would provide a final answer on Firefox support for XP and Vista in September 2017.

The date has arrived and after an internal review, Mozilla announced it would sunset all support for Firefox on the two Windows platforms. Mozilla joins Google, which dropped support for XP and Vista back at version 50, released in April 2016. Microsoft has stopped XP and Vista support in April 2014 and April 2017, respectively.

Mozilla joins Google, who dropped support for XP and Vista back at version 50, released in April 2016. Microsoft has stopped XP support in April 2014 and Vista support in April 2017.  Firefox was effectively the safest browser for those using out-of-date operating systems.

 

Last modified on 05 October 2017
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