Updates to Chrome platform support

[Justin Dolske]

Ultimately this is a product decision, with input from various teams as to
what the cost of ongoing support is.

We still have a significant number of XP users, as well as new downloads
from XP users. IIRC both are in the 15% ballpark. We recently committed to
some infrastructure work to continue supporting even XPSP2 after SHA1 is
deprecated, so I think it's unlikely that we'd be dropping complete XP
support anytime soon.

Justin

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:18 PM, Dao Gottwald <dao at design-noir.de> wrote:

> I don't think we, the Firefox team, have a concrete plan. From what I can
> tell we don't go out of our way to support XP, Vista and those OS X
> versions. A lot of what we do is cross-platform to begin with (or
> cross-version when it's platform-specific) and mostly just works. There
> certainly is some overhead e.g. in the theme but I don't think it's a huge
> deal.
>
> dev-platform sounds like the right forum to me, as I think this will be a
> decision driven by platform people (although somebody else may have the
> final say).
>
> dao
>
> Chris Peterson wrote on 10.11.2015 22:52:
>
> > (I originally posted this on dev-platform, but people suggested I move
> > it to firefox-dev.)
> >
> >
> http://chrome.blogspot.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
> >
> > * Chrome’s support for Windows XP will be extended from December 2015 to
> > April 2016 (after previously extending from April 2015 to December 2015).
> >
> > * Chrome will also drop support for Windows Vista and Mac OS X 10.6,
> > 10.7, and 10.8 in April 2016. "Chrome will continue to function on these
> > platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes."
> >
> > What is Mozilla's current plan for supporting XP, Vista, and OS X
> 10.6–10.8?
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