Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S

Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by deprave on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:37AM (#11853736)

That's the point of beta software. They're making it public, but it's still a release whose purpose is to investigate problems with the code before an official release.

I wonder if they're isolating E10S to stock-Firefox as means to avoid too many interactions while debugging or some other reason. I don't even wanna ask why they're still supporting Windows XP...

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by sametmax on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @07:57AM (#11853807)

Because in many countries, XP is the most used OS, and Firefox is the only well supported browser on it. Hence it's a significant market share they can get without any competition fighting for it.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by cpeterso on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @12:44PM (#11855692)

About 15% of Firefox users run XP, a little more than Windows 10 or OS X. Even if Mozilla dropped support for XP, I doubt those users would switch to some other unsupported browser. Firefox wouldn't lose those users (in Statcounter metrics), but they would be stuck on the same Firefox version forever.

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Re:Firefox 48 Beta, Release, and E10S by ashmud on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:35PM (#11857129)

It let us switch our servers to SNI-only as we still have clients with users on XP. (IE on XP does not support SNI.)

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