Now it's time to keep step up for
the technologies as Firefox ends supported for the classical windows version. Still using Windows 2000 or Windows XP Pre-SP2? If so, you had
better upgrade your operating system. Mozilla's Asa Dotzler announced that the
Firefox team is moving towards using a newer version of the Visual Studio
toolchain. Once this is done, Mozilla will no longer be able to build for
Windows 2000, or Windows XP SP1. Once Mozilla moves t? Visual Studio 2010, th??
won't b? ?bl? t? build f?r Windows 2000, XP RTM ?r SP1.
The share of users still using these two out of date Windows versions is
really small, the largest number I saw was maybe .4%? So, if this means that the
Mozilla team is able to put out a bigger and better browser, then so be it.
Dotzler says, “Next Tuesday or Wednesday, after Firefox 12 moves to Aurora, the
Mozilla Release Engineering team will begin upgrading our Windows build systems
to Visual Studio 2010.” In fact, Mozilla has supported Windows XP SP1 and
Windows 2000 longer than Microsoft has. Internet Explorer 8 requires XP with SP2
or higher, and has no support for Windows 2000 at all. So if you are still
using Windows XP, make sure you are running the latest and greatest version if
you want to still use Firefox.