![]() In the past, I guess it was, but according to a Woody on Windows column over at Computer World there are places like Harbor Computer Services that will sell individual users ESU licenses for $70 for the first year and I'm guessing more for each subsequent year. Also, it gives Firefox's user base time to upgrade their machines.įinally, Windows 7 ESU isn't "purely" a volume license offering this time. That way Mozilla differentiates itself from other browser makers that just cut users off cold. I personally like the idea of migrating every OS on to a Firefox ESR that Mozilla ends support for. That way, you could provide security support at least until 2022. If you don't want to go that route because of library compatibility, security issues, and code base clean up you could move Windows 7 users on to a Firefox ESR in 2021 (Firefox 88 ESR I would guess). Mozilla could support both until that time and then migrate both of their user bases on to the next Firefox ESR after that (Firefox 108 ESR I would guess). Windows 7 ESU and Windows 8.1 both have their last support day on January 10, 2023. Mozilla depreciated Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time by moving them both to Firefox 52 ESR. ![]() Both OS sets are made up of a popular OS followed by an unpopular OS. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 are sort of like Windows XP and Windows Vista. As of now ~33% of our users are still on Windows 7 - this has been steadily declining (it was 41% a year ago, 45% two years ago). Otherwise waiting until the following ESR or beyond would make sense depending on market share numbers. This would give our users an additional year and a half of support on Windows 7. I imagine there may be some compelling security/sandboxing reasons as well.Īs far as timing goes, it seems like the earliest we'd want to do anything is deprecate after the next ESR (76?) release hits beta. For example there's a know high memory usage issue ( bug 1483414) that could be a problem for the Fission project, but is not an issue if we are dropping Win7 support.Īdditionally there's a non-trival amount of IsWin8OrLater checks in our codebase so there's potential for simplification by removing fallback codepaths. It's not clear to me how much of a win this would be, but it would at least help prioritize whether or not we should pursue Windows 7 specific problems. Windows 8.1 will continue to be supported until 2023, although we might consider dropping support for 8.0 as that has been long deprecated as well (in NT lingo, that would be deprecate < 6.3). We should consider our deprecation strategy. ![]() Windows 7 is dropping extended support as of January 14, 2020, after which it will no longer receive security updates. ![]()
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