XP is a massive platform both for our current user base and for the developing world where we see millions of new web users coming online every month. We won't be dropping support in the near future, nor do we have a set date by which we would do so.
J --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox Engineering @johnath On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Michael Hoye wrote: > > We've dropped support for platforms before - Win9x back when dinosaurs roamed > the earth, Win2k, All OSX on PPC as of Firefox 4.0, OSX 10.4 and earlier as > of I'm not sure when. See: > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-mac-os-10-4-or-powerpc > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-some-versions-windows-xp > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-windows-2000 > > Also, some historical bugs: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330276 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359808 > > Manufacturer-EOL doesn't seem to be the driving factor in that decision. It > looks mostly about how many of our users are still on the platform v. the > resources we have available to support them. > > XP is unusual for its longevity and market base - is it still more than a > third of our users? That wouldn't surprise me - but I don't think there's > ever been a formal criteria or roadmap for dropping support. > > - mhoye > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Kyle Huey" <[email protected]> >> To: "PARET Sebastien" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "Asa Dotzler" <[email protected]>, [email protected] >> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:08:29 AM >> Subject: Re: End of XP support in April 2014: what about Mozilla products? >> >> Asa can give you the official word here but the end of support from >> Microsoft is unlikely to effect our decision to support Windows XP, which >> will be based on how many users we have still running XP (among other >> things). > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
