Future Of Firefox Quantum On Windows 7

[ED_Sln]

2 hours ago, Mark-XP said:

is that really true?

I too was surprised to see that there was some sort of update. The good thing is that I have Nightly made portable with its own profile, so updating and corrupting the profile did not damage my data. I had to add a policy to block updates, but it affects all versions of Firefox.

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Mozilla\Firefox]
"DisableAppUpdate"=dword:00000001

 

Edited September 23, 2023 by ED_Sln
Added a registry key.

[broken120x120]

From a purely technical and compatibility basis, would you guys recommend updating to v117 or sticking to v115 ESR?

Edit: How far can Windows 8.1 go?

Edited September 23, 2023 by broken120x120

[Mark-XP]

From my purely instinctive "mozilla-experience" basis i'll stay on 102 ESR alap, and if then any important(!) site will not work with it in the future, i'll install v115 (parallel) for it.

[ED_Sln]

10 hours ago, broken120x120 said:

From a purely technical and compatibility basis, would you guys recommend updating to v117 or sticking to v115 ESR?

I don't think there's much point in keeping v117, even though it's newer in features, but eventually, in a few years both will be equally obsolete. But ESR will eliminate vulnerabilities found during the support period.

[yoltboy01]

14 hours ago, broken120x120 said:

Edit: How far can Windows 8.1 go?

Currently, Windows 8.1 can run the latest version (119). Since 120 Nightly will be released tomorrow, I think it will run as well. It‘s going to be the fifth post-EOL version to run on 8.1

[Jakob99]

On 9/24/2023 at 4:01 AM, yoltboy01 said:

Currently, Windows 8.1 can run the latest version (119). Since 120 Nightly will be released tomorrow, I think it will run as well. It‘s going to be the fifth post-EOL version to run on 8.1

I can confirm 119 works under 8.1. I did not see 120 in the Mozilla FTP, so I couldn't try that yet.

[mina7601]

41 minutes ago, Jakob99 said:

I can confirm 119 works under 8.1. I did not see 120 in the Mozilla FTP, so I couldn't try that yet.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2023/09/2023-09-26-09-27-49-mozilla-central/ (this is the latest, at the time of this writing)

From the above link, choose win64.zip version.

[Jakob99]

9 minutes ago, mina7601 said:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2023/09/2023-09-26-09-27-49-mozilla-central/ (this is the latest, at the time of this writing)

From the above link, choose win64.zip version.

Cool! Thank you for the link!

[mina7601]

12 minutes ago, Jakob99 said:

Cool! Thank you for the link!

You're welcome!

[Jakob99]

1 hour ago, mina7601 said:

You're welcome!

It works!

https://imgur.com/aBzWCIm

https://imgur.com/kgLmnaD

Edited September 27, 2023 by Jakob99

[K4sum1]

Latest Firefox (122.0.1 as of posting) for Windows 7

https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox/releases

[jassenna]

Does anyone here know what is the last Firefox dev build

compatible with Windows 7 ?

 

[Vista4Life]

On 4/18/2024 at 3:12 AM, jassenna said:

Does anyone here know what is the last Firefox dev build

compatible with Windows 7 ?

 

Nightly build 2023-07-18-09-25-38 is the latest one that works.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2023/07/2023-07-18-09-25-38-mozilla-central/

[D.Draker]

11 hours ago, Vista4Life said:

Nightly build 2023-07-18-09-25-38 is the latest one that works.

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/2023/07/2023-07-18-09-25-38-mozilla-central/

Oh thanks, so that was rumours about Jan. 2024 build.

[jassenna]

Vista4Life said:

| Nightly build 2023-07-18-09-25-38 is the latest one that works.

But I asked for dev builds - Those that appear in 

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/dev/ - not nightly builds.

Anyway, thank you for the reply.