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

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:From my cold dead hands...

[hairyfeet]

You are making a joke but I really don't see why so many would want to hang onto XP as frankly? Its a piece of shit, sorry but it is.

1.-When XP came out the average system had 256MB of RAM or less so XP will bitchslap the swap even when it has tons of memory to spare. 2.- Speaking of memory not only are you limited to 3.2Gb of memory but it doesn't even manage that well, requiring a reg hack to keep the system from taking 2GB for itself. 3.- Its support for newer tech like NCQ, SATA, 3G, etc is frankly bolted on and piss poor at best, 4.- Its got patches for its patches, making system instability and "Winrot" pretty much a given,hell I could go on all day.

Frankly anything from 2007 on up can run Windows 7 quite easily, I have put Win 7 Home on both a first gen C2D and a Pentium D, both with 1.5GB of RAM and they run just fine and anything older? Honestly you are just throwing money away as most of the older office machines and consumer boxes are Pentium 4 and the P4 is just insane when it comes to heat and power usage so hanging onto one is just nuts.

For those that have a system too old to take Win 7 I suggest you pick up an AMD Bobcat board, those can be found in the $80 price range and its dual cores and Radeon GPU will stomp the old P4s while sipping less than 20w under load,use a PCI-IDE adapter to keep your old HDD and DVD and there ya go,for just $100 counting a 4GB stick of RAM you have a new unit that can do 1080P while using less under load than a P4 by itself uses in idle. Tiger and Newegg has been selling Win 7 HP OEM for around $80 so for a final total of less than $200 shipped you can toss the power hog P4 AND XP AND have you a nice unit that will easily out perform the old junk you are replacing. BTW for those that want a cheap mediatank/HTPC I highly recommend the Bobcat, does 1080P over HDMI and supports hybrid crossfire so you can add a cheap discrete down the line and get more performance if/when you need it.