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Mozilla shoots self in foot? Firefox Update May Not Support Older Windows

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Firefox Update May Not Support Older Windows
Gregg Keizer, Computerworld
Apr 18, 2009

Mozilla Corp. is considering dropping support for Windows 2000 and the earliest versions of XP when it ships the follow-up to Firefox 3.5 in 2010, online discussions show.

In a series of messages on the forum, developers and Mozilla executives, including the company's chief engineer and its director of Firefox, hashed out which Microsoft Corp. operating systems it should support with the 2010 edition of its browser.

"Raise the minimum requirements on Gecko 1.9.2 (and any versions of Firefox built on 1.9.2) for Windows builds to require Windows XP Service Pack 3 or higher," said Michael Conner, one of the company's software engineers, to start the discussion.

Mozilla is currently working on Gecko 1.9.1, the engine that powers Firefox 3.5, the still-in-development browser the company hopes to release at some point in the second quarter. Gecko 1.9.2, and the successor to Firefox 3.5 built on it -- Mozilla has dubbed the latter "Firefox.next" and code named it "Namoroka" -- are slated to wrap up in "early-to-mid 2010," according to the company's current plans.

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