Future of Mozilla Firefox on Windows 7 and 8x

[Jody Thornton]

Other than a Ghacks article mentioning that Mozilla was not quite decided on its support plans for these OSs, I have not seen any other news on this (which I had hoped would be a bigger story).

One theory seems to suggest that the current ESR 102 will be supported until June 2023 (when ESR 115 is released}, or until August 2023 when the last ESR 102 update drops.

Has anyone heard any additional information?

Edited November 14, 2022 by Jody Thornton

[Sampei.Nihira]

ESR support is likely to end in August 2023 with Firefox 102.15:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar

 

[grey_rat]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594270

[Jody Thornton]

Thanks grey_rat

They really are undecided

[grey_rat]

Probably 115esr last for 7. Disabling 7 - 8.1 and 10 32 bits will free up time for 10 and 11 64 bit.

 

 

[Jody Thornton]

13 hours ago, grey_rat said:

Probably 115esr last for 7. Disabling 7 - 8.1 and 10 32 bits will free up time for 10 and 11 64 bit.

 

 

That would be fine for me

 

[Sampei.Nihira]

There is a problem with FF 113 and W.7.
Read the comments:

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/05/09/firefox-113-ships-with-security-accessibility-and-av1-improvements/#comments

[grey_rat]

Fast work on old PC (without DirectX 10+ graphics card), Firefox 113, win7

• gfx.webrender.all - false
• gfx.webrender.enabled - false
• gfx.webrender.unaccelerated-widget.force - true
• layers.gpu-process.force-enabled - true
• widget.non-native-theme.webrender - false
• dom.ipc.processCount - 1
• layers.async-pan-zoom.enabled - false
• fission.autostart - false
• security.sandbox.gpu.level - 0
• general.smoothScroll - false

 

 

Edited May 25, 2023 by grey_rat

[Old Technology]

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support

115 last version confirmed 

[BW134]

Does new Nightly based on Firefox 116 work on Windows 7/8? 

In past, Firefox 53 with some modifications was doable on Vista, so that's why i ask.

Edit: mistook the developer branches...

Edited June 9, 2023 by BW134

[mina7601]

On 6/9/2023 at 3:10 PM, BW134 said:

Does new Nightly based on Firefox 116 work on Windows 7/8? 

@yoltboy01 tested it here.

Edited June 15, 2023 by mina7601

[XPerceniol]

On 5/25/2023 at 12:35 PM, grey_rat said:

Fast work on old PC (without DirectX 10+ graphics card), Firefox 113, win7

• gfx.webrender.all - false
• gfx.webrender.enabled - false
• gfx.webrender.unaccelerated-widget.force - true
• layers.gpu-process.force-enabled - true
• widget.non-native-theme.webrender - false
• dom.ipc.processCount - 1
• layers.async-pan-zoom.enabled - false
• fission.autostart - false
• security.sandbox.gpu.level - 0
• general.smoothScroll - false

 

 

Hi old friend ... do you recommend also changing those settings in Mypal? Thanks in advance. ~Sal

[grey_rat]

XPerceniol,

only Win7 MyPal 68, Firefox 68, 84, 91 and 115:

Basic settings - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/h6un1y1jj17bli0/user.js

and add additionally:

Stationary PC - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/il5uq0l3stxddg0/Стационарный компьютер.txt

laptop - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p4ctyfsz2ia93cv/Ноутбук или планшет.txt

CPU 2006 year or new - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/1jpmkghjgugdzph/Процессор 2006 года или новее.txt

CPU until 2006 year - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/w4dgsttb8trpwhw/Процессор до 2006 года.txt

not needed WebRTC - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/5itj863q8z9kcx1/Не пользуетесь аудио и видео чатами в браузере.txt

without DirectX 10+ graphics card - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tgwi09q0zp5h74n/Видеокарта до DX10.txt

DirectX 10+ graphics card - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/i9wqqtqxbys8u4i/Видеокарта DX10%2B.txt

if safety is not needed - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0ame0wy0fsxy3fz/Для развлечений%2C не нужна строгая безопасность.txt

Edited November 21, 2023 by grey_rat

[XPerceniol]

2 hours ago, grey_rat said:

...Basic settings - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/h6un1y1jj17bli0/user.js...

Thank you for the explanation and I do like this one (and already have a lot of those implemented) and will test out those settings this week as Mypal is my default browser now.

Edited November 21, 2023 by XPerceniol

[XPerceniol]

2 hours ago, grey_rat said:

XPerceniol,

only Win7 MyPal 68, Firefox 68, 84, 91 and 115:

Basic settings - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/h6un1y1jj17bli0/user.js

and add additionally:

Stationary PC - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/il5uq0l3stxddg0/Стационарный компьютер.txt

laptop - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p4ctyfsz2ia93cv/Ноутбук или планшет.txt

CPU 2006 year or new - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/1jpmkghjgugdzph/Процессор 2006 года или новее.txt

CPU until 2006 year - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/w4dgsttb8trpwhw/Процессор до 2006 года.txt

not needed WebRTC - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/5itj863q8z9kcx1/Не пользуетесь аудио и видео чатами в браузере.txt

without DirectX 10+ graphics card - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tgwi09q0zp5h74n/Видеокарта до DX10.txt

DirectX 10+ graphics card - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/i9wqqtqxbys8u4i/Видеокарта DX10%2B.txt

if safety is not needed - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0ame0wy0fsxy3fz/Для развлечений%2C не нужна строгая безопасность.txt

Thank you for this, sorry I ran out of likes or I would've done so, but a reply is also a nice way to show appreciation.