Mozilla Mulls Dropping Firefox For Win2K, Early XP

CWmike writes "Mozilla is pondering dropping support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 3 when it ships the follow-up to Firefox 3.5 in 2010, show discussions on the mozilla.dev.planning forum by developers and Mozilla executives, including the company's chief engineer and its director of Firefox. '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 — dubbed 'Firefox.next' and code named 'Namoroka' — are slated to wrap up in 'early-to-mid 2010,' according to Mozilla."

forcing users to upgrade

[rossdee]

Did Mozilla get taken over by Microsoft or something?

Re:Firefox.neXt?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is this a joke? Making firefox run on neXt and dropping OS X compatibility?

That seems like something only @pple would do!

Re:Sorry- but

[WaXHeLL]

What's this web interface you're talking about? Real system admins don't even use the command line -- they go in there and start writing/manipulating machine code.

Re:Sorry- but

[NeoRete]

Excuse me, but real sysadmins (or programmers) use butterflies [xkcd.com]. (Obligatory)

Re:Because

[Ortega-Starfire]

I'm user #4, you insensitive clod!

Re:I feel their pain

[Tumbleweed]

I hate developing using old tools.

I hate developing for old fools.

Re:Sorry- but

[Larryish]

Hey! Don't make me get out my tiny platter-writing magnetic diddle sticks!

Re:Hmmm

[Anonymous Coward]

then use one from early 2010.

Re:Sorry- but

[houstonbofh]

It is never necessary to have Windows on a server. Of course, it seems to be on a few...

Re:forcing users to upgrade

[Eunuchswear]

You can build using GCC 3.3 for PowerPC and GCC 4 for Intel, but who wants to be stuck using GCC 3.3?

$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /u/local/lib/gcc-lib/i686-UnixWare7.1.1-sysv5/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

Pah, novelty junkies.