[pchelpers] News: Firefox To Drop Support For Windows 98, Me
- From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:24:45 +1200
Mozilla will drop support for the nearly obsolete operating systems
when it releases Firefox 3.0 in 2007. Some users criticized the decision.
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb.com
Jun 12, 2006 02:07 PM
Mozilla Corp. will drop support for the almost-obsolete Windows 98 and
Windows Millennium operating systems when it releases Firefox 3.0
sometime in 2007, the company said last week.
Surprisingly, the decision -- which closely followed a move by Microsoft
not to patch a critical bug in Windows 98 and Millennium -- was met with
some resistance.
One contributor to Bugzilla, the database of fixes for Firefox and other
Mozilla software, immediately added a "counter bug" entry questioning
the decision.
"Mozilla is running on some other platforms having smaller numbers, so
why kill Win98?" wrote someone identified as Hermann Schwab. "If you
want to kill it, please don't do it silently in the backyard by checking
in something in the trunk, but do a survey about market shares of OS in
the new installed (or updated) Firefox."
Mozilla developer Gervase Markham, however, proposed knocking out
support for Windows 98 and Millennium not with next year's Firefox 3.0,
but starting with Firefox 2.0, which is scheduled to release in August.
More here:
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=ZFW1WJORUPQ1SQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=189400423
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