Now that support for Windows 10 has ended, software developers will make announcements regarding support of their products on the operating system.
Mozilla has just announced that it will continue to support Firefox on Windows 10 devices for “the foreseeable future”. While the organization did not provide a specific, at least “at the minimum until” would be nice, it guarantees that Firefox users on Windows 10 continue to receive updates for the browser.
Mozilla is also one of the few browser makers that supports Windows 7, as it extended support for the operating system several times. Considering that Windows 10 is more widely used, it is likely that support for Firefox on Windows 10 will go on for a long time.
If you remain on Windows 10, you will continue to get the same updates to Firefox you do today, with all of our latest feature improvements and bug fixes. This includes our commitment to resolve security vulnerabilities as rapidly as we can, sometimes in less than 24 hours, with special security updates. Windows 10 remains a primary platform for Firefox users. Unlike older versions of Windows like Windows 7 and 8, where Mozilla is only offering security updates to Firefox, Windows 10 will get the latest and greatest features and bug fixes just like users on Windows 11.
Mozilla recommends that Windows 10 users upgrade to Windows 11, if the PC supports it, or subscribe to Extended Security Updates for Windows 10. The latter would extend support by a year on consumer PCs and for up to three years on business PCs.
Other browser makers, including Google, have not made announcements regarding end of support of their browsers. The official Chrome Support Timelines website lists Chrome’s deprecation release and date for Windows 10 as “not yet scheduled”.
With Windows 10 used on hundreds of million of devices worldwide, even Google can’t afford to lose a sizeable chunk of users overnight, should the company decide to end support as early as it did when Windows 7 support ended.