Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop 257
Billly Gates writes "Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP in 2014. Fortunately for its users who want to keep browsing the web, Google is continuing to support Chrome until at least 2015. Firefox has no current plans to end support for XP. Hopefully this will delay the dreaded XPopacalypse — the idea that a major virus/worm/trojan will take down millions of systems that haven't been issued security patches. When these browsers finally do end XP support, does it mean webmasters will need to write seperate versions of CSS and JavaScript for older versions if the user base refuses to leave Windows XP (as happened with IE6)?"
Update: 10/29 17:31 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that Mozilla doesn't have plans to drop XP support any time soon.
Article says the opposite? (Score:5, Informative)
The article says they have no plans to end support for XP, how in the world did the summary end up saying exactly the opposite?
Or is now even blatant lying ok as long as it might work as clickbait?
Linked article says exact opposite (Score:5, Informative)
The linked article, posted 20 hours ago, actually says
Neowin asked Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, if it has any plans to end support for XP and Johnathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox at Mozilla stated, "We have no plans to discontinue support for our XP users."
and basically the same for Chrome.
Firefox is continuing support (Score:5, Informative)
From the fine article:
Neowin asked Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, if it has any plans to end support for XP and Johnathan Nightingale, VP of Firefox at Mozilla stated, "We have no plans to discontinue support for our XP users."
And where does it say this? (Score:5, Informative)
The first link says that Mozilla plans to continue supporting Firefox on XP; it gives no end date, so they presumably mean indefinitely (though practically probably not much longer than a few years--for example, they supported Windows 2000 until Firefox 12 in April 2012, a bit over 2 years after its EOL; on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised if they went a bit longer with XP given its larger user base). The second link says Google plans to continue Chrome support on XP into at least 2015. Neither one of these links talks about Firefox or Chrome ending support for Windows XP. In fact, both mention the exact opposite, at least for the foreseeable future, so I'm really wondering where the author of this summary got this information.
Re:Someone could fork the project (Score:5, Informative)
No need, the linked article says they're going to keep on supporting it.
(In a huge headline font...)
The motivation is to support Windows Server 2003 (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Enough is Enough (Score:4, Informative)
It will adversely affect the virtual machine I use to watch Netflix. That's about it... I have a legal license for XP and run it in a VM. I no longer have a valid license for 7, and would not touch 8 with a 10-foot pole, even if you paid me to do it. But I still need something modern to support Windows XP, because that's how I access Netflix from my desktop PC.
Admittedly, with the number of devices I have with native Netflix clients (tablet, phone, smart TV, game consoles, etc.), that will become less of a problem, but I do still find time/reason to watch it on the desktop, and the Linux-native attempts do not work very well in my experience.
You'll probably hate Classic Shell less (Score:4, Informative)
I now have Windows 8 on my other partition. I hate the interface, passionately
You'll probably hate Classic Shell less. It adds a proper Start Menu to Windows 8, which you can configure to look like Windows 9x, Windows XP, or Windows 7.
Re:Article says the opposite? (Score:4, Informative)
Timothy is on duty.
does this mean (Score:4, Informative)
does this mean will not have to worry about upgrading to a new version of Firefox every other fortnight and having it break all the add-ons
sounds good to me
btw I just upgraded to FF 25 on my Win7 box and had to fiddle with Foxtab a lot to get it going again
there was no mention during the upgrade process that Foxtab was incompatible
Re:Article says the opposite? (Score:5, Informative)
The Chrome article states that support will end in 2015 - a year after Microsoft ends its support. The FireFox article states that their support will continue (indefinitely).
More basic than the browsers - will the antivirus guys like Norton, Kaspersky, ESET, et al continue to support XP?
The Article (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Article says the opposite? (Score:5, Informative)
My initial guess was the article submitter was unclear on "continuing support indefinitely" but then I RTFA'd and I saw:
"We have no plans to discontinue support for our XP users."
I mean. How much more clearer can you get? Yeesh.
Re:64 bit Firefox (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Article says the opposite? (Score:5, Informative)
We Love XP (Score:5, Informative)
But the problem that Microsoft faces is that they hire programmers, and programmers are change agents. If the program really does the job well, nobody will ever buy a new version. So they have to artificially destroy Windows XP in order to sell newer versions. Trojans, viruses, malware are all allies of Microsoft.
Sort of like getting a new wife every eight years, whether you want one or not.