Firefox 3 drops support for Windows 95, 98 and Mac OS 10.2
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Posted Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 04:08 PM [GMT-6]

The newest version of Firefox, code named Gran Paradiso, is in its second alpha release, meaning that it's not nearly ready for prime time but is available for application developers to test. But the next version of Firefox will be built using Gecko 1.9 as its layout engine, and the folks at Mozilla are already warning that it won't support Windows 95, 98, or ME, and will require Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.

I can't decide if the difference in the wording of these limitations is meaningful or not. Does it mean that Firefox 3 won't run on those versions of Windows, or simply that you're on your own if you have problems? There's less ambiguity with the Mac OS requirement.

Update: According to a Mozilla rep, it's incorrect to refer to this as an "alpha release of Firefox 3." The alpha designation is for the new version of Gecko. The practical implication is that Firefox 3 is waaaay off in the future.

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