Hi, On 26/02/2019 10:42, Georg Koppen wrote: > I am not sure whether that's actually the intention of the original > question. Assuming with "get Tor updates" it's actually meant to get > *Tor Browser* updates (there is no tor update mechanism for Windows > afaict) let me add the browser related bits here. > > Mozilla stopped supporting Windows XP starting with Firefox 60 ESR, > which is the browser version underlying Tor Browser 8.x. We decided that > we will follow Mozilla here as maintaining an even larger fork > supporting XP is risky both security- and resource-wise. Thus, even if > tor would not have the respective policy for Windows XP, the browser > would not run on that outdated and unmaintained Windows version.
I think this is perfectly reasonable given the size of the codebase. In February 2017, Windows XP made up 8.4% of the Firefox userbase. After this there are no metrics on how many Firefox users there are, or Vista users, I guess because those OS are no longer supported. It's also not clear where these users are located and what was preventing them from upgrading. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware Tor Metrics does not have per-version data on Windows users, only Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux. I think that if there was a strong desire to have Windows XP/Vista support for Tor Browser though, it would need to have that support reintroduced in Firefox. Thanks, Iain.
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