Mozilla Sets End of Firefox Windows XP Support

[gmaster456]

Mozilla has set an end of support date for Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM, and Windows XP SP1.

Full article here

Personally I am not surprised. In fact, I'm actually surprised this didn't happen sooner. Microsoft dropped support for these operating systems 6 to 8 years ago and it's about time other companies do the same. I wonder what kind of improvements we will see because of this change.

They have also announced that Firefox 3.6.28 will be the last release for FF 3.6.

 

[MustISO]

They're ending support for XP SP1, if people are still running SP1 or SP2 they really need to get their stuff upgraded.

 

[nemesismk2]

They're ending support for XP SP1, if people are still running SP1 or SP2 they really need to get their stuff upgraded.

I agree 100%. I don't understand why people are not using XP SP3?

 

[bruceb]

As long as they keep it for XP SP3 we will be fine. My pc can't run Win 7 and I have no plans to buy a new one at this time.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

Thanks, this is a good thing. I wonder how long they will support XP SP3? guessing until around 2014?

 

[mikeymikec]

I agree 100%. I don't understand why people are not using XP SP3?

Probably because some 'techie' "heard once on the Internet" that SP3 does really bad things to your machine.

(not saying it does)

 

[Revolution 11]

SP2 might have caused unstable XP machines to crash but SP3 is just a package of the post-SP2 updates. If Windows is being regularly updated, SP3 is a no-brainer update to get.

 

[Kathi201]

I think XP3 is best because i am still the user of XP 3....Thanks

 

[vailr]

As long as they keep it for XP SP3 we will be fine. My pc can't run Win 7 and I have no plans to buy a new one at this time.

Just curious: what system parameter would prevent your running Windows 7?
CPU speed, system memory, HD capacity?

 

[silvan4now]

well it was time for it i think; don't really know how many people are still using XP these days

 

[bruceb]

I have an old Dell Dimension 8200 .. it can not do Windows 7 (can't run Directx) and it needs more than the 512MB of ram that is in there. That system runs Rambus Memory (hard to find and costly) Eventually, when it gets replaced I would be on the newer system.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

as long as they support SP3, ill be fine.

 

[Matt1970]

SP3 is just a package of the post-SP2 updates. If Windows is being regularly updated, SP3 is a no-brainer update to get.

I don't understand why they can't support SP2 as long as it has all the updates. I have seen SP3 not install on quite a few machines.

 

[gmaster456]

I don't understand why they can't support SP2 as long as it has all the updates. I have seen SP3 not install on quite a few machines.

Microsoft doesn't support SP2 and hasn't for almost 2 years. Why should Mozilla?