With this, Mozilla will have given more than 1.5 years of extra support compared to Chromium browsers. Supporting old operating systems has a development cost, and they put themselves at a disadvantage if they choose to support these old OSes for much longer.
People should really just update. Old, unsupported operating systems are unsafe to use.
Oh, does ESR not have mandatory extension signing? That is pretty interesting actually! I thought unbranded builds were the only way to go, but they lack automatic updates.
Firefox support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 ( blog.mozilla.org )
With Firefox 115, users on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR).
Can't use hardware acceleration on archlinux, how do I make it work? ( lemmy.world )
I did the things that these sites say:...
Firefox now has speed parity with Chrome on the Speedometer benchmark ( mozilla.social )
Thought I’d never see the day when Firefox would match Chrome on Speedometer....
Firefox ESR? ( fedia.io )
Is Firefox ESR more stable? Uses less memory? Have you tried it?