I used to think that! But then I started to actually get to know a ton of the demographic (ie, "old people", "not tech-savvy", "can't afford a new computer") to which you refer. NONE OF THEM USE FIREFOX !!! They use "hand-me up" computers that their family and friends give them after upgrading their own computers. Even DONATIONS from local churches because you can't SELL them, you have to GIVE THEM AWAY (because we really do hang onto them FOREVER and they're not worth a dime once we finally admit it's time to get rid of). Or they're simply not as "poor" as their humility has others thinking them to be.
The harsh REALITY is that it is only people like us on this forum, and forums similar to it, that are DELUSIONED into the whole paradigm of "Long Live XP" or "Long Live 7". Claiming anything to the contrary is just "backwards logic" attempting to justify the extension of something with one foot in the grave. I would submit that it is ONLY the "tech-savvy" that DOES use Firefox! Whether it be primary, or secondary, or just as a hobby. Plus, us tech-savvy folks wouldn't have to denigrate Microsoft as much/often as we do if they didn't do such a GREAT JOB at making GRANDMA and GRANDPA 'able' to use
any version of Windows if they've so much as used
any previous version of Windows. Microsoft really does have that marketing aspect CORNERED. They can not (and never will) be able to DO as much as us tech-savvy folks. But any GRANDMA or GRANDPA that has sat in front of Win98 *CAN STUMBLE THEIR WAY INTO THE "START MENU" OF WIN11* and find their browser or email or SOLITAIRE and h#ll, they'll even find and LEARN a stupid little thing called CANDY CRUSH. That and, um, duh!, if you are are so much as even reading this, you ARE "tech-savvy" and it is that aspect of your character that not only makes you a Firefox/fork user, but ALSO is what makes you a MEMBER of this web site. Grandma's and Grandpa's don't exactly have ANY shred of interest in forums like this.
Mozilla "extending" support for ESR 115 makes them nothing more than what a prison ward would refer to as an ENABLER.
It is one thing to "long live" a HOBBY, but call it what it is, a hobby, extending ESR 115 does the NON-HOBBY person ZERO 'good'.
Even Mozilla knows that. But they are being smacked around like a cat playing with a half-dead mouse by MOB MENTALITY of the "Long Live 7" gang(sters).
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