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> Shumway needs H.264 video decoders that may not be available on Windows XP or Linux.

Today I learned that Firefox still supports Windows XP.

About 25% of Firefox Windows users run Windows XP.

Is that a real number? I've seen a huge decrease in Windows XP users over the last year, from almost 20% to bellow 10%. But that was for different product, so I'm wondering if FF got it this bad.

Yes, though I don't have a public source for it. I don't know why Firefox's OS version statistics are not public. Wikipedia says 49% of computers in China run Windows XP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Support_lifecycle

Microsoft added its "Genuine Windows" copy protection in XP SP3, so XP SP2 is especially common. (Firefox supports both XP SP3 and SP2.)

This is a myth actually, and I hope they can kill XP SP2 support in 2015. At least getting rid of the SHA1 cert at the download site at the end of 2015

Yes exactly and from my experience it's really the best browser available on Windows XP.

I've even seen myself a Windows XP with Firefox installed in a shop just a few days ago.

Out of curiosity, what are the options on Windows XP? IE 8, Opera 12?

In 2013, Google said they would support Chrome on Windows XP until at least April 2015:

http://chrome.blogspot.com/2013/10/extending-chrome-support-...

Chrome works fine, too.

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