Mozilla advised Firefox users still running Windows XP RTM or XP SP1 to migrate to a newer operating system – Windows XP SP3 is a free upgrade – and urged Windows 2000 customers to do the same.ĭotzler also steered Windows 2000 users toward a rival. The only version of Windows XP still backed by Microsoft with security updates – including patches for Internet Explorer 6 (IE6), the browser that shipped with the OS – is SP3, which released in 2008 and has two years of support life left. Windows 2000 fell off Microsoft’s support list in mid-2010, and XP and XP SP1 were dumped in 20, respectively. Microsoft doesn’t even support Windows XP SP2 . Microsoft retired all three editions years ago.
But it’s not as if Mozilla has jumped the gun. Mozilla added support for SPDY in Firefox 11, the March 13 release.īy switching to Visual Studio 2010, Mozilla will not be able to build Firefox for the older operating systems, said Dotzler. SPDY, for “speedy,” is a Google-crafted protocol that promises faster and more secure page loading. “Our users have suffered a slower Firefox than would be possible as both direct and indirect results of moving to a more modern compiler,” he added. Mozilla has been discussing the change for at least three years and initially pulled the trigger two months ago.Īt the time, Asa Dotzler, director of Firefox, said: “Our developers have not been able to take advantage of new compiler features and have had to struggle to keep valuable optimisations from breaking, including having had to back out and ultimately delay some important new features like SPDY.” “This support change allows us to significantly improve Firefox performance on Windows by using a more modern build system,” Mozilla said. If you are trying to download from say or on a system with a WinXP useragent then you will likely be served Firefox 43.0.1 and then you can do internal update to 52.9.0esr that way.Firefox 12, set to ship April 24 and due to be replaced by the next edition on June 4, will be the last that supports the three older Windows. If you download from (just pick your language locale like en-US or such) it will be 32-bit Firefox 52.9.0 esr as in Firefox Setup 52.9.0esr.exe
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