![]() (If you hover over it in Firefox, it says “Show site information” in Chrome, hovering it says “View site information” - that’s the icon I’m talking about.) At the top of both browser windows, at the far-left end of the URL bar, there’s a little icon of the letter “i” in a circle. (I did this on my Mac, but I’m guessing it would work on other platforms too.) I’m reading this article in Firefox, so I opened a new blank window in Chrome. I just tried an interesting little experiment, with a useful result. ![]() In the past I’ve just copied and pasted the URL, but (even for just one tab) that is a little tedious. Since I’ve rarely wanted to transfer more than one tab between browsers, I’m not inclined to install another extension just for that - especially one that (according to your description) closed all my tabs in the process. ![]() Now You: are you affected by the decision? Mozilla Firefox is the last major web browser that supports XP and Vista (when you look at use figures). Google stopped supporting XP and Vista back in Chrome in April 2016 already. Windows XP has not received security updates since April 2014, unless you have applied this little tweak to the machine. Microsoft ended support for Windows XP on April 2014, and plans to end support for Windows Vista on April 2017. The new version will become available with the release of Firefox 52 on March 7, 2017, and will be supported until mid 2018.įirefox users on XP or Vista may use Firefox therefore at least up until that time unless Mozilla decides to remove support for those operating systems from ESR at one point before the release of Firefox ESR 59 (which seems unlikely). Firefox ESR 52 will be supported for quite a while. It is unclear as of now for how long XP or Vista will be supported on the ESR channel. We still don't have an official EOL date for XP support, but moving the platform to the ESR branch means that we will *not* need to worry about new feature support for XP which is becoming increasingly difficult. We've decided to move Windows XP to the Firefox 52 ESR branch, so that Firefox 51 will be the last mainline version to support the platform. Firefox 51 is therefore the last version of the browser that is not ESR. ![]() Initially there shouldn't be an issue with running but eventually we'll import a system dependency that will break browser startup.Īnother bug, bug 1303827, highlights Mozilla's plan to move XP users to Firefox's ESR branch when version 52 gets released. Once 52 merges to aurora, we should land changes to the stand alone installer to prevent install by XP and Vista users. We plan to eol XP/Vista by first moving those users out to ESR 52. Tip: load about: in Firefox's address bar to display the version of the browser installed on your machine.īug 1305453 on Bugzilla lists the plan to stop stand-alone Firefox 53 and up installers from installing Firefox on XP or Vista machines. Firefox 53: no support for Windows XP or Vista The organization plans to migrate Firefox users on XP or Vista to Firefox ESR automatically however to extend support. It is unclear whether it plans to block execution of portable versions of Firefox as well. Mozilla explicitly mentions installations that it plans to block. This means that Firefox 52 will be the last feature update for those operating systems, as Firefox 53 cannot be installed anymore on those operating systems.
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