Unfair for xp users

Methen · Post by **Methen** » March 17th, 2017, 5:48 am

I just wanted to say that I think its totally unfair to drop support for xp, there are a great number of people who still use Xp including myself, I dot like other OS systems and I have no intention of giving up xp...

Post by **LIMPET235** » March 17th, 2017, 6:18 am

Hi,
This thread & post by "the-edmeister" may help you out with continuing to run XP.
> http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14737181
&, the site to get your version...
> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/o ... tions/all/

If you'd care to do a search of the fora, there are quite a few threads on the subject.--------------------------------------------->>>

Methen · Post by **Methen** » March 17th, 2017, 6:43 am

sadly that appears to be a temporary solution and I already have that installed...

the-edmeister · Post by **the-edmeister** » March 17th, 2017, 6:58 am

Methen wrote:sadly that appears to be a temporary solution and I already have that installed...

Firefox 52 ESR will take you well into 2018.

How long do you expect Mozilla to support an operating system that was made E-O-L almost 3 years ago?

"Unfair for XP users"? Suck it up! Life in general ain't fair; and then you die.

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Kevin McFarlane · Post by **Kevin McFarlane** » March 17th, 2017, 7:30 am

the-edmeister wrote: How long do you expect Mozilla to support an operating system that was made E-O-L almost 3 years ago?
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And that EOL was already extended by 3 years!

Methen · Post by **Methen** » March 17th, 2017, 10:11 am

For as long as there is one single person using xp that is how long...

Post by **James** » March 17th, 2017, 10:46 am

Unfair huh well by the time support for WinXP and Vista ends Firefox 52.8.0esr will be out at two years since Google dropped support for WinXP/Vista with Chrome in April 2016.

Kevin McFarlane wrote:
the-edmeister wrote: How long do you expect Mozilla to support an operating system that was made E-O-L almost 3 years ago?
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And that EOL was already extended by 3 years!

malliz · Post by **malliz** » March 17th, 2017, 2:53 pm

Methen wrote:For as long as there is one single person using xp that is how long...

So do you have any sympathy for people using Win 98? Or are you just a me! me! me! person?

Mouse5 · Post by **Mouse5** » March 17th, 2017, 3:14 pm

blame Microsoft, there the ones that are ending support for there older OS's

Frank Lion · Post by **Frank Lion** » March 17th, 2017, 3:27 pm

Methen wrote:I just wanted to say that I think its totally unfair to drop support for xp

not as unfair as when they dropped support for the sinclair spectrum+

Post by **DanRaisch** » March 17th, 2017, 4:01 pm

Is there an up to date version of Firefox that will run on my Coleco Adam?

efox99 · Post by **efox99** » March 18th, 2017, 11:00 pm

omg is this real life?

Anyways...

Windows 7 > XP

Kevin McFarlane · Post by **Kevin McFarlane** » March 19th, 2017, 10:26 am

James wrote:Unfair huh well by the time support for WinXP and Vista ends Firefox 52.8.0esr will be out at two years since Google dropped support for WinXP/Vista with Chrome in April 2016.

Kevin McFarlane wrote:
the-edmeister wrote: How long do you expect Mozilla to support an operating system that was made E-O-L almost 3 years ago?
.
And that EOL was already extended by 3 years!
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/hel ... fact-sheet
Client operating systems | Latest update or service pack | End of mainstream support | End of extended support
Windows XP | Service Pack 3 | April 14, 2009 | April 8, 2014
Windows Vista | Service Pack 2 | April 10, 2012 | April 11, 2017

I was actually supporting your point, in case it didn't come across that way.

I.e., MS extended support for 3 years past their normal date but it's still deemed not good enough for some users.

xichael · Post by **xichael** » March 21st, 2017, 3:27 pm

How many man-hours do you figure it takes Mozilla to keep Firefox functional on XP?

I'd say it'd be unfair to the rest of us to have them devote another minute to the cause.

Using XP at this point is just reckless.

Post by **James** » March 22nd, 2017, 12:54 am

One of the complications in supporting WInXP.

from the tracking Bug#1130266 for Reading is comment #16

Jim Mathies [:jimm] 6 months ago
Supporting XP is actually become quite a problem for our releng teams in that data center testing hardware doesn't support XP anymore. So for example we currently use AWS for most of our testing, but have XP tests running on old hardware we have to maintain ourselves in a data center. It's issues like this that push us to move XP out to an extended support release where we can decommission most of our automated testing associated with it.

Please read before considering commenting in any of the related reports as "Why?" and such comments will be spam and likely hidden.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=etiquette.html

Not linking directly to bug to make it less easy for people not used to the Bugzilla issues tracker to spam any of the related bugs.

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