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Firefox released Firefox 52 earlier this week to the public, and it has a few notable thingies.
First of all, FireFox 52 is the last version of FireFox which will support Windows XP and Vista, from this point on a user who wants to snag the latest versions with the newest features of Firefox will have to use Windows 7 and above for support. Firefox will, however, keep this version updated with security fixes for an extended period of time.
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It is kind of disappointing that Firefox 52 would be the last version of Firefox for Windows Vista which is a few years younger than XP. Vista was released in January 2007 while XP was released in October 2001. XP still also have a lot of users which may feel disappointed that they now won't get any new web browser updates for Firefox.
But, it is good that Firefox will still release security fixes for an extended period of time.
XP is also still somewhat popular with 8.45% of the world's marketshare of online desktop devices according to Operating system market share . It is also still the world's third most popular desktop Operating system.
XP has more users than Windows 8.1/8, MAC OS X 10.12 and older versions of OS X, Linux, Windows Vista and 2000, etc.
But, People who use XP and Vista can always dual-boot to a Free Linux OS like Linux Mint and Ubuntu Linux if they want to continue using Firefox in the future. Linux should run well on most computers which came with XP, and Vista, but users may need to upgrade the RAM to 1GB if their older Vista and XP PC only has 512MB of RAM.
First of all, FireFox 52 is the last version of FireFox which will support Windows XP and Vista, from this point on a user who wants to snag the latest versions with the newest features of Firefox will have to use Windows 7 and above for support. Firefox will, however, keep this version updated with security fixes for an extended period of time.
Read More
It is kind of disappointing that Firefox 52 would be the last version of Firefox for Windows Vista which is a few years younger than XP. Vista was released in January 2007 while XP was released in October 2001. XP still also have a lot of users which may feel disappointed that they now won't get any new web browser updates for Firefox.
But, it is good that Firefox will still release security fixes for an extended period of time.
XP is also still somewhat popular with 8.45% of the world's marketshare of online desktop devices according to Operating system market share . It is also still the world's third most popular desktop Operating system.
XP has more users than Windows 8.1/8, MAC OS X 10.12 and older versions of OS X, Linux, Windows Vista and 2000, etc.
But, People who use XP and Vista can always dual-boot to a Free Linux OS like Linux Mint and Ubuntu Linux if they want to continue using Firefox in the future. Linux should run well on most computers which came with XP, and Vista, but users may need to upgrade the RAM to 1GB if their older Vista and XP PC only has 512MB of RAM.