Mozilla promised to support Windows XP and Vista until at least September 2017. The browser gets security updates however when new Firefox versions get released.
Instead of having to cope with new releases every six or so weeks, Firefox ESR gets major updates only after eight release cycles. It is designed primarily for organizations who want more time when it comes to browser updates. This meant basically that Firefox 52.x was the last stable channel version of Firefox for those operating systems, and that XP and Vista users could not run Firefox 53 on their devices.įirefox ESR is the Extended Support Release of Firefox. Mozilla moved Windows XP and Windows Vista users of Firefox to the web browser's ESR channel during the release of Firefox 53. Like it or not, you'll probably have to consider a new OS (or a new PC) if you want to experience the modern internet next year.Mozilla, maker of the Firefox web browser, announced today that Firefox support for Windows XP and Windows Vista will be ended in June 2018. However, it's still a big deal if you're stuck on a work PC or otherwise haven't had a chance to upgrade to a newer version of Windows. There aren't likely to be many people who both run a 10-year-old operating system and care enough about their web experience to use a recent browser, so the impact may be limited. But when security flaws are hard to avoid, it'll be impractical to keep using Firefox on those platforms when you could remain permanently vulnerable to exploits.
This doesn't mean that Firefox will stop working on XP or Vista in September, of course. And while the company plans to unveil a final support end date in the middle of that year, it'll effectively cut the cord in September, when it stops delivering security updates. Mozilla will start by moving users on these operating systems to the Extended Support Release in March 2017, limiting them to feature updates that can be "several cycles" behind the curve. However, even that team has its limits - it's phasing out support for XP and Vista starting next year. To this day, Mozilla's latest software can work with your decade-old PC. Numerous web browsers have already stopped supporting Windows XP and Vista, but not Firefox.
0 kommentar(er)
