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Is security the new motor powering the upgrade treadmill? God knows how many vulnerabilities there are in the massively outdated Windows 7, why don't you upgra

• roblabla 7y ago
  Win7 gets security updates until somewhere in 2020. After that point, anyone still using 7 will be better off upgrading to 8/8.1/10. Firefox 56 is not an ESR. It does not get security patches. From a quick look, there are public CVEs[0] that allow for ROP code execution almost effortlessly. Security was always one of the big reasons behind keeping browsers up to date (the other reason being propagating new standard faster). Besides, I wasn’t suggesting updating to latest firefox. I specifically mentioned pale moon and basilisk because they support old style extensions, while hopefully keeping up with the security fixes and other improvements to the engine going in mainline. [0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/product_id-3264/year-2019/opov-1/Mozilla-Firefox.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/...
• lucb1e 7y ago
  Windows 7 gets security updates. But I do agree with your general point, fear of vulns pushing you to broken versions feels wrong. I've been on 55 myself (since 56 already broke some stuff) until a month ago, upgraded for security reasons, giving up convenient tab switching with the mouse, mouse gestures in view-source tabs, stable vertical tabs (tree style tabs is not super stable), quick toggles for javascript/css/proxy, etc. :/