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From: Frank Miller <miller@posteo.ee>
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Subject: Re: Updated Firefoxes for August 19th, 2025...
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:55:57 +0200
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Mark Lloyd wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:11:52 -0000 (UTC), Ant wrote:
> 
>> https://www.firefox.com/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/
>> https://www.firefox.com/firefox/128.14.0/releasenotes/
>> https://www.firefox.com/firefox/115.27.0/releasenotes/
> 
> Is 115.27 still the last update that works on Windows 7?

How often has this been asked now? *Yes* it is.

Official statement from Mozilla:
"Microsoft ended official support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 in January
of 2023. Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates and
have known exploits. With no official support from Microsoft, maintaining
Firefox for obsolete operating systems becomes costly for Mozilla and
dangerous for users."
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support

So you have two options:
- Get a (relative) up to date system¹, download the actual Firefox, get
used to it and move on. (¹The system doesn't have to be Windows.)
- Or stick with an outdated Firefox browser on an unpatched and insecure
system you are "used to". In real life it doesn't matter which of both
has more security holes.