It's much faster than any Firefox fork mentioned above. There is Chromium 49 which is full-featured, supports all video codecs but doesn't support GPU hardware acceleration under XP. I had the chance to try it and I wouldn't rely on it for everyday use. There is Advanced Chrome that has a build above version 51.0 but does not support hardware acceleration (yes it's possible under XP) and is not a real stable alternative because it crashes sometimes. So you know it's not that good on an old computer running XP. Since this is Firefox codebase, all of them are really slow because the unoptimized and bloated engine Firefox codebase generally comes with. On these browsers you must use an older version of uBlock, around version 1.13. These are Centaury (built from Basilisk), Mypal (built from Pale Moon) and New Moon (built from Pale Moon). One of these is the Firefox branch, more exactly the forks that have been created from older versions of Firefox and the last versions of Firefox ESR that used to support XP. On Windows XP there are a limited set of browsers available. And especially that kind of people who need the capabilities of your great blocking extension the most. So that's not just a simple version number. At least twice as much than of Linux, according to NetMarketShare. Windows XP is still used by millions of people.The last version of Chrome available for Windows XP is Chrome/Chromium 49.So the minimum Chrome version number must go up to 51.0.
I have already opened an issue in your global issue tracker but I'm afraid one of your volunteers has just labeled it as invalid, referring to another issue where it was stated that Chrome version must be bumped above 49 because of a JavaScript syntax it doesn't support.
Older versions of firefox for windows xp upgrade#
Mozilla recommends that Windows XP RTM or XP SP1 users upgrade to Windows XP SP3.I have opened this here because this is only for you. Microsoft now only supports the provision of security patches for Windows XP SP3. Microsoft also no longer supports Windows XP SP2. Microsoft stopped supporting Windows 2000 in mid-2010, XP and XP SP1 in 20. Microsoft gave three " retired" versions of Windows operating systems a few years ago. Mozilla is currently switching to Visual Studio 2010 so it cannot build Firefox for previous operating systems. Asa Dotzler, Director of Firefox, said the company reached the final decision on this support a few months ago. Mozilla said the change will help it further improve Firefox's performance on Windows, making the most of the new Windows system.Īnalysts are not surprised by this decision by Mozilla, because three years ago Mozilla mentioned it. Firefox 13 does not support Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM (release to manufacturing, mid-2001 build) or Windows XP Service Pack 1.įirefox 12 will be released on April 24, 2012, and the next version will be released on June 4, 2012. Mozilla also reiterated that it will stop providing security updates for the 2-year-old version of Firefox 3.6 in April 2012.įrom Firefox 13, Mozilla's web browser requires a minimum of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Mozilla said Firefox 12 will be the last version to run on Windows XP and Windows 2000.
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