March 17, 2011

Firefox 4 Will Support Windows XP

Unlike Microsoft’s latest release of Internet Exploiter Explorer (IE9). Via The Microsoft Blog/Seattle PI: You can download it here, but only if you’re using Windows 7 or Vista. Windows XP users aren’t invited to this party. IE9 won’t work on that nearly decade-old operating system. By not creating a version for XP, Microsoft is preventing a large majority of users from downloading and installing the latest browser. According to Net Applications’ data from February, Windows XP was used on 55 percent of the Windows machines that access the Web. That’s a huge number of computers that simply can’t run IE9….

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Firefox 3.5 No Longer Supported?

Well, if that were the case why is Mozilla still doing updates? The latest version is Firefox 3.5.17 and in April they will release 3.5.18. But, upon first run after install users are presented with this screen: Also, there is no longer a link on the getfirefox.com to version 3.5 (or if there is it is well hidden).  I do recall for the longest time on the Firefox 3.5 download page was an announcement that support would only be provided until August 2010. That announcement remained even after August 2010. This date as chosen for two possible reasons: This would…

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