Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM, XP SP1)

Re:Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM,... by mcot2 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @08:49PM (#3754405)

... but this support change allows us to significantly improve Firefox performance on Windows by using a more modern build system.

Does anyone have any info on the new build system? Last I checked they still used make which is installed via the mozilla tools.

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Re:Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM,... by jbrackett on Sunday March 25, 2012 @09:03PM (#3754449)

Apparently the big change is to use Visual Studio 2010 for the Windows builds.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end-of-f...

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Re:Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM,... by JoshTriplett on Sunday March 25, 2012 @10:14PM (#3754619)

In particular, the current version of Firefox kept struggling to link within a 4GB address space. Hence the comments about "having had to back out and ultimately delay some important new features like SPDY": nothing about SPDY itself, but it happened to push the link above 4GB and cause builds to fail, so it got temporarily dropped.

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Re:Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM,... by mcot2 on Sunday March 25, 2012 @11:06PM (#3754785)

Thanks for the link. It appears the actual build system will still be based on make but just requiring the toolchain inside vs2010 (currently you can use vs2005-2010). Am I correct here?

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Re:Upcoming Firefox Support Changes (dropping Win2K, XP RTM,... by yuhong on Sunday March 25, 2012 @09:53PM (#3754571)

Which means Server 2003 RTM is also dropped, BTW.

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