Mozilla has announced users of Firefox on Windows Vista and below will no longer get support nor software updates effective April 2017.
According to a statement by the company, “Firefox is one of the only browsers to offer any support for Windows XP and Vista”.
Microsoft ended support for Windows XP in 2014 and will end support for Windows Vista in 2017, and Mozilla has in the statement said that “Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and can be dangerous to use, which makes it difficult to maintain Firefox on those versions”.
According to the statement, “Firefox security updates for XP and Vista users will continue until September 2017, although new features will not be offered”.
“In mid-2017, a final support end date will be announced based on the number of users still on Windows XP and Vista,” the statement added.
Already, most browsers (such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer) have ended support for Windows XP and Windows Vista.