Firefox support ended for Win7 2026
I've been a long time supporter of Firefox and it's taken me a few years get all the bugs out of Win 7 so I'm not going to repeat that on Win X. My Win7_64 water cooled platform is overclocked, stable, and just as fast as most affordable new chipsets from Intel. I have third party security apps and firewall. I'm not downgrading to Windows X whatever later version that is and I'm considering other browser options, if anybody has ideas?
Although I'm on the ESR channel, I've been using User Agent Switcher for a while, which seems to work well on most sites. I also notice DuckDuckgo browser claims to support Win 7. I will miss Firefox, but switching to a Win7 supported browser would be my first option, then Linux if I have to dump Windows 7 for something else.
Developers will moan and say switch to Win X with the favorite phrase 'Upgrade' when my experience has been the opposite, but what do others feel who are using older versions of Windows?
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Mozilla is the only one still supporting the eol Windows 7, 8, 8.1 (also macOS 10.12, 10.13, 10.14) with the older Firefox 115 ESR. There is no other major browser option as the Chrome/Chromium based browsers dropped support of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 back in early 2023.
The last planned update for the older Firefox 115 ESR channel is Firefox 115.33.0esr unless Mozilla decides before then to extend updates yet again. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support
The only other option besides updating to Windows 10, 11 is to perhaps dual boot with a current Linux distro and then you can use current Firefox versions like 140.6.0esr and 146.0 Release whether by Linux tarbal from Mozilla or instead deb,rpm, flatpak, snap depending on the distro.
Though if your CPU 32-bit then 32-bit Linux distros is more limited compared to 64-bit Linux distro options. Also Firefox has dropped support of 32-bit Linux from Firefox 145.0 and on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-has-ended-support-32-bit-linux
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A space for users to give product feedback. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/what-mozilla-connect
Other comment https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/extending-windows-7-and-8-support/idc-p/112396/highlight/true#M59197, take a look at https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/windows-7-support-with-firefox-esr-115-x/m-p/87091/highlight/true#M33350, https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware
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