"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," said Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Firefox. "As we intend to ship the next version of Firefox in early 2010, Firefox 3.5 will continue to be supported under our current support policy (six months after the next version) until after those OS versions are no longer supported," reasoned Connor, "so users will continue to be supported by Mozilla at least as long as their OS is supported." After that July 2010 date, Microsoft will only support Windows XP SP3, the free upgrade it shipped in May 2008 after some initial compatibility snafus. will end all support for Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Pack 2 on July 13, 2010, and has already ditched support for Windows XP and XP SP1. Gecko 1.9.2 and the successor to Firefox 3.5 built on it - which Mozilla has dubbed "Firefox.next" and code-named "Namoroka" - are slated to wrap up in "early-to-mid 2010," according to the company's current plans.Ĭonnor based his proposal on the fact that Microsoft Corp. The company hopes to release that browser at some point in the second quarter. Mozilla is currently working on Gecko 1.9.1, the engine that powers Firefox 3.5, which is still under development.
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