Firefox is the name of the latest statement will stop supporting Windows XP OS 2, Windows Vista the next time.
For those who still cling to Windows XP and Vista, the list of companies willing to support the operating system is becoming increasingly fragile. Next Microsoft, Google, Mozilla also announced on end support on the 2 Firefox OS.
Yesterday, the company announced that it would terminate the program "Firefox Extended Support Release" in June 2018 and will not release any updates or patches for Firefox on Windows XP and Vista from the moment there.
Microsoft ended support for Windows XP in 2014 as a move to urge users to upgrade to newer versions of Windows. Recently, Windows Vista also has followed the fate of Windows XP (earlier this year).
2015, Google announced that Chrome - the most popular web browser will stop supporting the OS 2 in 2016 (this announcement also mentioned some old version of MacOS).
According to the latest figures from NetMarketShare, Windows XP still accounts for 5.68% of the share desktops, bigger than Linux and Apple's MacOS. Microsoft ended support for the operating system, require consumers to upgrade due to threats from growing like ransomware WannaCry attacks recently.
Last month, Mozilla has rebranded for the latest version of Firefox 57 (beta) into Firefox Quantum with 2 times faster than version 52. This can be achieved by Mozilla to build basic components of Rust browser language. Traditionally, Firefox always use a CPU core, but with the "engine" behind the new version of 57, eventually it will use multiple cores to handle the process faster.
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