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With Firefox 115, users on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand why Firefox is doing this, they're not the only one. But I also understand why people would like to stay on older operating systems, particularly Windows 7.

Just a difficult situation all around

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

With this, Mozilla will have given more than 1.5 years of extra support compared to Chromium browsers. Supporting old operating systems has a development cost, and they put themselves at a disadvantage if they choose to support these old OSes for much longer.

People should really just update. Old, unsupported operating systems are unsafe to use.