Firefox continues to stick to the old platform and will support Win7 and Win8.1 systems until 2024

Firefox continues to stick to the old platform and will support Win7 and Win8.1 systems until 2024. Since Microsoft announced in January this year that it would officially stop official support for Win7 and Win8.1 systems, a large number of third-party software, including Chrome, have successively announced that they will stop maintaining these old platforms.

Firefox browser continues to stick to the old platform and will support Win7 and Win8.1 systems until 2024

But in this case it will abandon Win7 and Win8.1 Firefox has become a "special case" in the trend of the Internet.

According to Firefox browser developer Mozilla, although Firefox cannot maintain support and maintenance for the old system forever, it will still extend support until 2024.

To this end, Mozilla may launch an ESR version of Firefox in mid-2023 to support Win7 and Win8.1 systems.

It is reported that this move is to increase the user base of the browser. Mozilla hopes to attract these users by extending the Firefox browser's support for Win7 and Win8.1, thereby expanding its market share.

In fact, Win7 still accounts for 9.62% of users, and Win8.1 also has 2.31% of users. For Firefox, whose market share is currently in jeopardy, these users are indeed very important.

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