Future Of Firefox Quantum On Windows 7

[erpdude8]

saw one of the comments from this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8gcjth/

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We're planning to extend support for Windows 7 users past the currently planned date and give them better options for migrating to a new PC when they choose to.

 

[lll888]

14 часов назад, erpdude8 сказал:

 

 

While they plan, one kind person does it

https://github.com/adeii/supermium-portable/releases/

[yoltboy01]

On 7/8/2024 at 11:10 PM, erpdude8 said:

saw one of the comments from this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8gcjth/

 

It would be a great decision if they would upgrade Windows 7/8.1 users to Firefox 128 ESR for another year (won't happen probably)

[AstragonQC]

5 hours ago, yoltboy01 said:

It would be a great decision if they would upgrade Windows 7/8.1 users to Firefox 128 ESR for another year (won't happen probably)

It won't happen, they'll just extend ESR 115 support for longer than usual.

[yoltboy01]

1 hour ago, AstragonQC said:

It won't happen, they'll just extend ESR 115 support for longer than usual.

Yeah that's sad tbh. They could have supported 8.1 till 128 tho. The compatibility isn't broken

[vinifera]

just use r3dfox
they are doing great job, they track newest FF upstream and still make it work for xp, vista, 7+
dancing at version 128 now

Edited July 17, 2024 by vinifera

[lll888]

20 часов назад, Винифера сказал:

 

I didn’t like the 128 version, I’m using 127 for now

[vinifera]

trapezoids ?

Edited July 18, 2024 by vinifera

[K4sum1]

If it's the new theme, it can be disabled.

[lll888]

I recently found in the profile folder along this path \ storage\to-by-removd

a lot of disk space

I added the task to the .bat file to clean this folder when loading the computer

on an example of how to clean the Temp folder

C:
cd \Users\this should be your username\AppData\Local\Temp
rmdir /s /q C:\Users\this should be your username\AppData\Local\Temp

added the path to the folder to-by-removd

the profile is located at this path  AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles

Edited July 19, 2024 by lll888

[veso266]

On 7/8/2024 at 11:10 PM, erpdude8 said:

saw one of the comments from this reddit post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/comment/l8gcjth/

 

Thats great news, its also great because even if we could probably use some open source fork, they are all missing DRM features that some streaming websites require and adding them is not possible (because if I read right widewine plugin needs to be signed with binary) due to a lot of money this DRM plugin companies want to sign the plugin for them, read here: https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/699

[dapgo]

On 7/9/2024 at 1:47 PM, lll888 said:

While they plan, one kind person does it

https://github.com/adeii/supermium-portable/releases/

So these project,  besides a chromium fork, contains other fork of browsers compatible with Windows7.

Are they compiled by project owner or just stored in releases?

BTW R3DFOX  128 works perfectly on a Windows7 32bits

Edited December 18, 2024 by dapgo

[ED_Sln]

r3dfox originally runs on Win 7 and even Win Vista. And it has a fully portable version.

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v128.4.0-hotfix

Edited December 20, 2024 by ED_Sln

[D.Draker]

On 12/20/2024 at 3:44 AM, ED_Sln said:

r3dfox originally runs on Win 7 and even Win Vista. And it has a fully portable version.

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases/tag/v128.4.0-hotfix

I'm in the process of finding the replacement,

https://msfn.org/board/topic/186346-i-moved-to-centbrowser-i-feel-happy-about-it/page/5/#findComment-1275874

But the amount of those startup connections, @NotHereToPlayGames wrote about, is simply insane, has the situation changed? Thanks.

[ED_Sln]

26 minutes ago, D.Draker said:

But the amount of those startup connections, @NotHereToPlayGames wrote about, is simply insane, has the situation changed?

I don't know, I haven't checked that. I'll have to check it out.