Mozilla also gave up Windows 98, Me

Mozilla will also discontinue support for older versions of Windows 9 and Windows Millennium operating systems when Firefox 3.0 is officially launched next year.

Mozilla's new move also surprised many in the industry when it was announced shortly after Microsoft decided not to release a patch of security flaws for Windows 98 and Windows Me.

Therefore, the question of why Mozilla made this decision was quickly put forward.

" Mozilla's products are also active in many other operating system versions with fewer users than Windows 98 and Me users, so why does Mozilla stop supporting these operating systems? ? ", a person named Hermann Schwab wrote on the Bugzilla website. " If you want to stop supporting, don't do it quietly, but do a survey of the market share of these OS versions that install using Firefox ."

Meanwhile, one of Mozilla Gervase Markham's developers also offered not to support support for Windows 98 and Me next year, but since Firefox 2.0 was released in August this year.

" The key point is that since July 11, 2006 Microsoft will not provide any security updates for the Windows 9x operating system, " Markham said. " I think that continuing to support these OS versions in the browser after the developer has stopped supporting security is an irresponsible and irresponsible thing, as that could make users Misunderstanding that they are still safe when surfing the web ".

However, users do not agree with Markham's point. If Firefox 2 is still active and compatible with Windows 98, persuading users with these problems is impossible. Can't tell them by the way 'Hey, we don't give you this version of the software, we don't like your operating system, Stay away from us' .

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