First Published: Jan 25, 2023
Last Update: Oct 19, 2025
NEWS
- W81 EOL Jan 2023: Edge & Chrome promptly dropped platform support in lockstep
- Mozilla
also followed suit with regular channel, BUT
- extended ESR channel
support by 6 months beyond official lifecycle, and
- has been perpetually
renewing such extensions since...
- thus, has become the sole refuge for legacy OS platform
- Currently:
- Extended EOL for FF115esr on Win 8.1: Mar 2026, well past its original ...
- Standard EOL: Oct 2024 (3-month overlap with FF128esr's 15-month lifecycle).
Crucial Insights
- there are multiple versions of current & active products
- within any given version, there are editions for specific purposes & use cases
- it's governed by a formal policy & schedule & scheme
- the tech-bro mantra "move fast and break things..." is detrimental, and antithesis to IT management
- the hipster "advice" of "latest and greatest" is categorically refuted and overridden--standing order
- bank IT depts can be (and often are) deadly wrong, on multiple fronts, as related to security
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