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    Mozilla wants you to like Firefox over Chrome, Edge with extended Windows 7/8/8.1 support

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    Mozilla had announced back in November of 2022 that it was considering extending the end of support date for Firefox. The company in March of 2023 it revealed the Extended Support Release (ESR) for Firefox that was released later in July of that year with version 115.

     

    Mozilla however has recently revealed that it wants to further extend support for its browser. The firm conducted an AMA (Ask Me Anything) in the Firefox subreddit last month in June where the Firefox leadership team joined in.

     

    The event included:

     

    • Bethel Kidane, Senior Product Marketing Manager
    • Andrew Overholt, VP, Engineering, Platform
    • Vicky Chin, VP, Engineering, Desktop, Mobile, and Pocket
    • Byron Jourdan, Senior Director, Product Management
    • Bobby Holley, CTO, Firefox
    • Sheila Mooney, Senior Director, Technical Program Management
    • Ian Carmichael, Senior Vice President, Firefox
    • Aaron Benson, Director, User Experience

     

    Among them, Byron Jourdan, Senior Director, Product Management of Mozilla, under the Reddit username ComprehensiveDoor643 revealed that Mozilla plans to support Firefox on Windows 7 for longer. When asked separately about whether it also included Windows 8 and 8.1 too, Jourdan added that it was certainly the plan, though for how long the extended support would last was still undecided:

     

    We're planning to extend support for Windows 7 users past the currently planned date and give them better options for migrating to a new PC when they choose to.

     

    ..

     

    It does include 8 and 8.1, I should have said that earlier.

     

    ..

     

    The honest answer is that we don't know right now, but on the surface it makes sense for us to support it while usage is still high there.

    While Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 does not have the biggest share of users according to the latest Statcounter data, Mozilla seems to want to secure this user base and in return offer older Windows version users an updated browser option.

     

    This is because Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge no longer support these OSs.

     

    Source: Reddit

     

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    andy2004

    maybe they should think about supporting windows XP as there seems to be a lot of people still using that aswell..

     

    Now i used to use Palemoon which was a fork of firefox.. but they followed firefox and decided to no longer support the old addons.

    so i switched to a fork of palemoon called NewMoon which not only supports the old addons but also supports windows xp according to the site.

    Newmoon is updated with all the same security updates.

     

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    7 hours ago, andy2004 said:

    maybe they should think about supporting windows XP as there seems to be a lot of people still using that aswell..

     

    Now i used to use Palemoon which was a fork of firefox.. but they followed firefox and decided to no longer support the old addons.

    so i switched to a fork of palemoon called NewMoon which not only supports the old addons but also supports windows xp according to the site.

    Newmoon is updated with all the same security updates.

     

    Can you please share the website?

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    On 7/8/2024 at 12:14 PM, andy2004 said:

    maybe they should think about supporting windows XP as there seems to be a lot of people still using that aswell.

    From one point of view, it could be understable.

    But from another one, let's hope these people will drop it (move to Linux or at least W7) because it will remain the worst OS from MicroSoft (as today it's a big matter of security (poor firewall, none support etc)).

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