The Mozilla Foundation will quickly now not assist customers of Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and macOS 10.12, 10.13 and 10.14 with updates for the favored Firefox browser. For a short while, an ESR (Extended Support Release) or LTS (Long-term Support) model shall be out there for these customers earlier than assist lastly ends in 2024. Mozilla announced the data in its own support blog.

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The final supported model for the affected working programs shall be Firefox model 115, which is deliberate for the start of July 2023. The builders clarify that Microsoft already ended support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 in January and thus no extra safety updates will observe—although there are recognized exploits. The Mozilla Foundation classifies the usage of these working programs as harmful anyway.

The state of affairs is comparable for the three variations of macOS. The Mozilla Foundation needs to ensure assist for Firefox ESR 115 till September 2024, when Mozilla will robotically set up the ESR model on the affected working programs. Affected Windows customers won’t be able to change to different well-known browsers: Microsoft Edge in addition to Google Chrome ended assist for Windows 7 and eight way back.

This article was translated from German to English, and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.