March 19, 2011

Why Firefox 4 isn’t abandoning Windows XP

gareon posted this article at Go Firefox! as a follow up to the article earlier this week on how IE9 does not support Windows XP. …More than 40 percent of web users are still on Windows XP. And that’s the first thing Firefox engineering director Johnathan Nightingale brought up when I asked him about the issue. In an ironic twist, Mozilla’s upcoming Firefox 4is supporting not only Microsoft’s Windows XP but also Windows 2000, even though Microsoft’s new browser doesn’t. “That’s a decision that they get to make, but it sure did surprise us, because the best metrics that we’ve…

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Firefox 4 RC2 Released

Mozilla released the second Release Candidate for Firefox 4.0 on March 18th. New in this release: Blacklisted a few invalid HTTPS certificates Updated localizations for 29 locales Added Vietnamese localization, bringing the total languages available in Firefox 4 to 83 For more info see the release notes for Firefox 4 RC2. The next planned release should be the official release of Firefox 4 which is scheduled for March 22nd, 2011.

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