Internet Explorer 9 requires Windows Vista or later. Internet Explorer 8 requires XP with SP2 or higher, and does not support Windows 2000 at all.

It is, of course, worth noting that Mozilla has supported Windows 2000 and XP with new browser versions longer than Microsoft itself. Says Dotzler, “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.

“Our developers have not been able to take advantage of new compiler features and have had to struggle to keep valuable optimizations from breaking – including having had to back out and ultimately delay some important new features like SPDY.”įinally, Mozilla is saying a fond farewell to the 0.4% of Windows users that are still on those really old releases. Once Mozilla moves to Visual Studio 2010, they won’t be able to build for Windows 2000, XP RTM or SP1.ĭotzler says that the team has held off “for a number of years” to preserve support for Windows 2000, Windows XP Release to Manufacturing (RTM), and Windows XP SP1. Yesterday, Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler announced that Firefox team is moving to a newer version of the Visual Studio toolchain. Not sure if this legacy url will still be in use when the old legacy 52 ESR is made EOL on Sept 5 with no more updates.If you’re one of the few Firefox users still on Windows 2000 or still using Windows XP without Service Pack 2 or later, Firefox is going to have to say goodbye. On you find the 52.9.0esr folder then pick the win32 folder (32-bit Windows) then the language (say en-US or en-GB for example) then download the setup. How should I proceed? Should I install v60 and then replace everything by the contents in the zip file for 52.9.0esr? I found the directory containing the correct release, but it is made up of several subdirectories, which I assume I must create myself on the virtual machine, but how about file associations, registry settings and other stuff? The only version I see with a complete setup is v 60. '''įirefox 52.9.0esr is still a current update as it was Released on June 26 along with 60.1.0esr and 61.0 Release. But, remember that '''old versions may have security issues.

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