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Mozilla Firefox is ending supports until end of this month for old Windows and mac OSes...

From ant@ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) to alt.comp.software.firefox on Fri Feb 20 00:23:08 2026

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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support
and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-macos-1012-1013-1014-moving-to-extended-support
from https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/7903-mozilla-firefox-is-ending-support-for-windows-7-this-time-for-real
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From Mr. Man-wai Chang@toylet.toylet@gmail.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Fri Feb 20 12:26:06 2026

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Self-fulfilling prophecy? :)

On 2/20/2026 8:23 AM, Ant wrote:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support
and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-macos-1012-1013-1014-moving-to-extended-support
from https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/7903-mozilla-firefox-is-ending-support-for-windows-7-this-time-for-real

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From JJ@jj4public@gmail.com to alt.comp.software.firefox on Sat Feb 21 05:25:52 2026

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On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:23:08 -0000 (UTC), Ant wrote:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support
and https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-macos-1012-1013-1014-moving-to-extended-support
from https://broadbandbulletin.com/d/7903-mozilla-firefox-is-ending-support-for-windows-7-this-time-for-real

For Windows users, no worry.
There are 3 forks of "modern" Firefox on GitHub.

Vista & Win7+:
https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox

Win7+:
https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7

Win7+:
https://github.com/Blaukovitch/Mozilla_Firefox_Windows_7
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From christian_acsf-ENTF@christian_acsf-ENTF@soemtron.de (Christian @Soemtron) to alt.comp.software.firefox on Tue Feb 24 21:27:00 2026

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JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> schrieb:

There are 3 forks of "modern" Firefox on GitHub. https://github.com/Eclipse-Community/r3dfox https://github.com/e3kskoy7wqk/Firefox-for-windows-7 https://github.com/Blaukovitch/Mozilla_Firefox_Windows_7

and which one is the most trustworthy? I tend to the 1st.

cu,
Christian

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