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DragonMaster
on June 8, 2006 2:13 PM |
[quote]While not many people make use of Windows 95 today, [/quote]About every single computers in my school do work on Win95. There are maybe 10 other computers running WinXP but that's all. |
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nic
on June 8, 2006 2:44 PM |
I think dropping support for old OSes is the right way to go. The competition is getting harder with IE7 just around the corner, so why dwell on old technology? Microsoft will no longer support windows 98/ME from 11 July 2006, so time to upgrade. |
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roseman
on June 8, 2006 3:01 PM |
YES it would impact me, as well as many others! I want to keep my Firefox updated. We are a dedicated group of Mozilla/Firefox supporters, and need continued support! Please don't try to pull a "Microsoft" on us, squeezing us out to force us to buy more MS-operating systems 
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canadian
on June 8, 2006 5:37 PM |
I think, they should just release two versions. Plain and simple. |
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abc
on June 8, 2006 8:15 PM |
In my experience, while there may be many people running old OSes, it isn't enough to hold back the browser. If I'm not mistaken, oppenoffice keeps an old version updated for security concerns for legacy OSes. I think firefox should do the same. |
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filthy_mcnasty
on June 8, 2006 9:38 PM |
Killing support for 9x is definitely the way to go. Why should Mozilla support something that not even the vendor supports anymore (and hasn't for ages. To a few posters ago: the "extended support" cycle they have might as well be no support, these OSes are dead even to Microsoft, even Win2k is in extended support now.)? Personally I stopped supporting it in my own applications a long time ago. I realize that this can alienate many in your user base but with something like Firefox.... so what? If people are still running those old operating systems then Firefox alone probably isn't doing a whole lot to help keep their systems clean anyways. And I also realize that this isn't always an option but if you're on Win9x it's time for an upgrade anyways. |
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derrycraig
on June 9, 2006 2:45 AM |
If Mozilla want to make their presence felt with the big boys the best way to go would to be to support the older operating systems preventing people from having to upgrade. Which would be useful for skint students, might drive down the price of windows licences. |
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filthy_mcnasty
on June 10, 2006 2:00 AM |
You don't grow a user base by supporting outdated technology, ever.Hell, even look at today's most recent news post on this very site (it's everywhere actually)..[url]http://www.techspot.com/news/21882-microsoft will-not-fix-security-flaw-in-98-me.html[/url] |
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ThomasNews
on June 11, 2006 9:08 AM |
I'd have to concur; legacy support should be dropped for Firefox 3. There's only so long you should reasonably expect developers to support any product. The Mozilla team have done a fine job for providing a modern Browser for legacy operating systems, but it's time to move on, Microsoft are about to end paid support for these systems to. If there are those who insist on continuing to use legacy products it's reasonable to expect them to have to rely on legacy applications also. |
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DragonMaster
on June 11, 2006 5:03 PM |
They might still support it with FFX2, and continue to ungrade it as they're doing with FFX 1.0, which is still upgraded. |
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