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Alex5723 wrote:

Yes, it does. With no Mozilla support there are no security updates.

I meant OS wise. As long as there’s a new version, it has security updates. What OS it supports does not matter.

Cybertooth wrote:

Supposing that Mozilla stop supporting Windows 7 sometime in 2025, will a r3dfox user who is on Windows 7 continue to have a browser offering current security patches after they stop? (I’m more concerned about up-to-date patching than up-to-date features.)

James Bond 007 wrote:

I would also hope that you will be able to keep up on security updates with R3DFox if and when Mozilla drops support for Windows 7 / Windows 8.1 with Firefox ESR. Like Cybertooth I am not concerned about new features, but I am concerned about security updates.

The security updates are part of the newer versions. When I port a newer version to Windows 7, you get the security updates from the newer version. What Mozilla supports here does not matter.

James Bond 007 wrote:

I don’t really mind if the menu is still in US English, only that the browser must be able to display web pages with other languages (in my case Traditional Chinese) correctly.

That should be fine. I don’t think I’ve touched that part.

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Cybertooth

James Bond 007 wrote:

But does this software run without significant issues on non-English versions of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1?

As far as I know, it should just work on those versions of Windows, but just be in English. I heard from another user that you should also be able to also use it in another language by downloading a translation pack, however the r3dfox settings do not get translated, and it needs to be reinstalled every update.

James Bond 007 wrote:

I would also like to mention in passing that Waterfox, another fork of Firefox, currently is also supposed to work on Windows 7

As far as I know it’s 115 ESR based which also works on 7 like stock Firefox 115 ESR. The G6.5 beta is 128 ESR based, and although I haven’t tested, I also haven’t seen anything about 7 support so I assume that it does not work on 7.

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Cybertooth

I can’t edit the post it seems. If a mod is able to, please change the title to “r3dfox, a modern Firefox based web browser for Windows Vista, 7, and 8!” and the first bit to “r3dfox is release branch Firefox made to work on Windows Vista, 7, and 8. Also with limited compatibility for XP using One Core API.”

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Steve

If you mean the browser, I’m backporting the latest release, which means it has the security updates of the latest release with it. There’s not really any reason to backport security updates to 115.

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Steve, jburk07, Cybertooth

Did this requirement actually get pushed? Stock Firefox up to 115 works fine on Windows 7 RTM/SP0, which never got a SHA-2 update. I’ve also tested my fork and it works too. (Currently 124)