Mozilla Firfox still supports windows XP How long it will continue in future

hi chima22, mozilla firefox continues to support windows xp currently. at some time later on support may of course be dropped as well, however there are no concrete plans for this yet.

philipp said

hi chima22, mozilla firefox continues to support windows xp currently. at some time later on support may of course be dropped as well, however there are no concrete plans for this yet.

Thanks Philipp so in short we can say that mozilla Firefox continuous it services for windows xp. That is why we love firefox browser

Firefox has already supported XP longer than other major browsers. The numbers of users will be dropping, and it will be getting harder to keep an unsupported OS anything like secure.

It may not be easy to predict when it will be decided the next hurdle is too high to be worth fixing for XP on Firefox.

It's probably a good time to start thinking seriously about methods of upgrading. If costs and hardware specs rule out Windows 10 One alternative to consider may be the use of lightweight Linux distros.

Hello to all, see also : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1108395

thank you

chima22 said

I am using windows xp on my home computer, Microsoft IE rolled out support for XP users and roumers are in the air Google will going to discontinue support for Chrome for user. How long mozilla will continue to provide support and serivce of Firefox for users like me.

Google stopped releasing Chrome updates to Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.6,10.7 and 10.8 this month so it is not rumors.

Mozilla has been considering dropping support for Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 as early as Firefox 46.0 due to the low OSX versions usage and would allow Mozilla to dedicate more resources to the other OS's.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firefox-dev/f0LNGDmC3KA

Support for Windows XP is still being maintained and in a next Firefox version you may be able to paly MP4 files with the HTML5 media player by using the OpenH264 plugin.

Bug 1210231 - Decode unencrypted H.264 and AAC using Adobe's CDM on Windows (Vista, and K/N editions) Bug 1234100 - Make Adobe GMP available to Windows XP users in Firefox 45 and later Bug 1250766 - Re-enable using Adobe GMP for decoding when system H.264/AAC codecs not available

John99 said

Firefox has already supported XP longer than other major browsers. The numbers of users will be dropping, and it will be getting harder to keep an unsupported OS anything like secure. It may not be easy to predict when it will be decided the next hurdle is too high to be worth fixing for XP on Firefox. It's probably a good time to start thinking seriously about methods of upgrading. If costs and hardware specs rule out Windows 10 One alternative to consider may be the use of lightweight Linux distros.

Yes I agree with your point of view, so we should try other free alternative methods to upgrade rather going for windows 10 upgrade spending huge money on that. The other free OS works pretty well i heard from my friends

ideato said

Hello to all, see also : https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1108395 thank you

let me check this too

cor-el said

Support for Windows XP is still being maintained and in a next Firefox version you may be able to paly MP4 files with the HTML5 media player by using the OpenH264 plugin. Bug 1210231 - Decode unencrypted H.264 and AAC using Adobe's CDM on Windows (Vista, and K/N editions) Bug 1234100 - Make Adobe GMP available to Windows XP users in Firefox 45 and later Bug 1250766 - Re-enable using Adobe GMP for decoding when system H.264/AAC codecs not available

Thanks good to hear from you yes we need to play MP4 files and HTML media player

James said

chima22 said

I am using windows xp on my home computer, Microsoft IE rolled out support for XP users and roomers are in the air Google will going to discontinue support for Chrome for user. How long Mozilla will continue to provide support and service of Firefox for users like me.

Google stopped releasing Chrome updates to Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.6,10.7 and 10.8 this month so it is not rumors.

Mozilla has been considering dropping support for Mac OSX 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 as early as Firefox 46.0 due to the low OSX versions usage and would allow Mozilla to dedicate more resources to the other OS's.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/firefox-dev/f0LNGDmC3KA

let me check through this link given above

chima22 said

Yes I agree with your point of view, so we should try other free alternative methods to upgrade rather going for windows 10 upgrade spending huge money on that. The other free OS works pretty well i heard from my friends

If you try Linux out you should look at using a desktop like XFCE or MATE vs using heavier ones like KDE or GNOME 3. Also you can have a partition for Linux distro and keep WinXP on hand in a dual boot.