Procrastination is all in a day's work...
By Kelly Fiveash, 15th April 2009
Mozilla execs have taken to their developer forum to mull whether to ditch support for versions of ageing Microsoft operating systems when it releases Firefox 3.5’s successor in 2010. Over the course of the past day, the browser maker’s developer team and company execs have been discussing which Windows operating systems Mozilla should offer support for. Mozilla software engineer Michael Conner kicked off the discussion by proposing the organisation ramp up minimum requirements for Gecko 1.9.2, as well as any versions of Firefox built on the rich internet apps platform, to require users to be running Windows XP SP3 or higher. Conner pointed out that Microsoft plans to kill support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 in July next year. However, Mozilla’s Firefox director Mike Beltzner didn’t seem overly enthusiastic about such a move. "Right now, the majority of our Windows users are still on XP, but I'm not sure it's clear how many of those users have upgraded, or intend to upgrade, or in some cases are able to upgrade," he said.
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