Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @01:28AM from the dragged-into-the-same-grave dept.

Billly Gates writes "Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP in 2014. Fortunately for its users who want to keep browsing the web, Google is continuing to support Chrome until at least 2015. Firefox has no current plans to end support for XP. Hopefully this will delay the dreaded XPopacalypse — the idea that a major virus/worm/trojan will take down millions of systems that haven't been issued security patches. When these browsers finally do end XP support, does it mean webmasters will need to write seperate versions of CSS and JavaScript for older versions if the user base refuses to leave Windows XP (as happened with IE6)?" Update: 10/29 17:31 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that Mozilla doesn't have plans to drop XP support any time soon.

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Re:Linked article says exact opposite by Thanshin · 2013-10-29 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny

The funniest thing is that, because of the headline being in the address, you can put your mouse over
"Firefox plans to end support for XP"
and read
"mozilla-to-support-firefox-on-windows-xp-after-microsoft-ends-support-for-the-os".
We should have that feature on presidential speeches!
Re:From my cold dead hands... by brain159 · 2013-10-29 02:36 · Score: 5, Funny

Will you drop some loot as well?
Re:From my cold dead hands... by alexgieg · 2013-10-29 03:39 · Score: 5, Funny

No loot, but he gives lots of XP.

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