Firefox to Stop Support for Windows XP and Windows 2000.
Firefox 3.5 is under development and is scheduled to release in early or mid 2010. With the release of this version, Mozilla COrp has decided drop its support for older versions of Windows namely, Windows 2000 and earliest version of Windows XP.
Mozilla has taken this step after Microsoft stopped its support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack (SP2) on the 13th of July, 2010. Microsoft intends to provide support to Windows XP’s Service Pack 3 (SP3). Michael Conner, Mozilla Firefox’s software engineer said the “users will continue to be supported by Mozilla as least as long as their OS is supported.”
Mozilla also wants to see how is the release the Microsoft new operating system Windows 7 is going to perform. After the success of Windows Vista, Mozilla developers feel that if Windows 7 is successful, then they would consider stopping its support to Windows XP entirely, that also includes Windows XP’s SP3.
The latest version of Mozilla Firefox is 3.0.9, it supports Windows 2000, Windows XP (all service packs), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows 7.
In the past, Mozilla had stopped providing support to Microsoft’s older operating system’s like Windows 98 and Windows NT. The users of these version of Windows were not able to upgrade from Mozilla 2.0 to any higher version of Firefox.
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Posted by Anvin on 22nd April, 2009
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