Maybe!

https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-wants-you-to-like-firefox-over-chrome-edge-with-extended-windows-7881-support/

I don't think Firefox 128 ESR would support OS prior to Windows 10 (8.1 still works unofficially). Rather they'll extend Firefox 115 ESR, maybe up to 115.20.0 or something like.

I'm divided on how I feel about that.  I like the idea of extending a browser that still works the way I like, however some sites I use for health benefits through work do not work on ESR 115, even when spoofing a user agent.  Well, I guess we'll see.

 

This is the site I wish I could use on ESR 115

https://my.canadalife.com/sign-in

 

What's wrong with r3dfox, works in Win 7.

I'm running 128.0

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

Edited July 9, 20242 yr by billmcct

12 hours ago, Jody Thornton said:

This is the site I wish I could use on ESR 115

https://my.canadalife.com/sign-in

 

No chance in Hell. It doesn't even work with Chrome 121. The wheel is constantly spinning, that's it.

I didn't look into the error console, sorry.

14 hours ago, BW134 said:

I don't think Firefox 128 ESR would support OS prior to Windows 10 (8.1 still works unofficially). Rather they'll extend Firefox 115 ESR, maybe up to 115.20.0 or something like.

Exactly! For me, looks like they simply want to make noise in a desperate attempt to draw a couple of more users.

9 hours ago, Jody Thornton said:

This is the site I wish I could use on ESR 115

https://my.canadalife.com/sign-in

 

It works if you spoof the Firefox version to the latest version 128. Spoofing the OS is not needed.

The User Agent should look like this :

	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
	

2 hours ago, Dixel said:

No chance in Hell. It doesn't even work with Chrome 121. The wheel is constantly spinning, that's it.

I didn't look into the error console, sorry.

Thanks Dixel.  It does work in Supermium so at least I'm covered on the Vista notebook.

 

2 hours ago, superleiw said:

It works if you spoof the Firefox version to the latest version 128. Spoofing the OS is not needed.

The User Agent should look like this :

 

	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0
	

Outstanding!  Thank you so much!

Edited July 10, 20242 yr by Jody Thornton

23 hours ago, Jody Thornton said:

Thanks Dixel.  It does work in Supermium so at least I'm covered on the Vista notebook.

 

No wonder, Supermium has a newer engine, the fact Firefox works with just spoofing could point to its inability to transmit Client Hints sneaky "feature" info.

Check here.

https://browserleaks.com/client-hints

I mean... even if they don't extend the "official" support, we have plenty of options for 7/8.1

As stated in many different posts, the latest Firefox (128 ESR!) works on both 7 and 8.1 with some modifications. Back in the days of XP/Vista this would have been great news, as there weren't any Extended Kernels for them in 2017/2018 but now that we have some projects that extend software support, I really do not care anymore about official EOLs.

XP : OneCore API

Vista: Extended Kernel

7: VxkEx

8.1: Mostly some tweaks to installers

Looks like support for ESR 115 has been extended until March 2025 with possibility for an additional extension.

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

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-platform/c/ffRCWVVHvAQ/m/PCVKYNnnAAAJ

Edited October 1, 20241 yr by superleiw

All Done Now!

https://chipp.in/software/windows/mozilla-ends-support-for-firefox-on-windows-7-and-8-8-1/

Not anymore ending with previous month. 115.34-115.39 still incoming!

Edited March 11Mar 11 by BW134