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Firefox to Drop Pre-Windows 2000 Support
cyclomedia writes "While more and more platforms are getting (or aiming for) Firefox ports, the trunk itself seems to be going the other way. In an effort to clean up the API calls used and reduce the codesize a patch was posted at Bugzilla removing support from pre-W2k versions of Windows. There's a fiery discussion going on over at the Mozillazine forums about this after a counter bug was filed. The official position appears to be that Firefox 3.0 will maintain this un-compatibility, but developers are, obviously, free to work on a separate Win 98 compatible 'port.'"
Excuse me? people are still using Windows 98?
Melenium is a joke anyway, so i suppose they are talking about 98/95... 3.11 maybe?
last time i checked everybody was happy with me installing Debian on their legacy hardware since it works way better than(arguably) any version of windows.
Software support is also there. There aren't any games needed for so old computers anyway.
Way to go Mozilla, focus on the stuff that matters(and one thing that doesn't matter is software that microsoft itself no longer supports)