History of Firefox has ended support for Windows XP and Vista

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Revision Status S Editor R Comment
Reviewed M behdad rahmani
Current M Mozinet improved some links, added a warning markup, and minor edits
Approved M ErlingR Changed advice regarding which Windows version to upgrade to, to 10 or higher, since Win 8.1 is no longer supported by Microsoft (see KB Firefox users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 moving to Extended Support Release)
Reviewed M Tacsipacsi Windows with capital W
Reviewed M PGGWriter Put in an answer to why Firefox ended support
Approved M AliceWyman edits to note
Approved M AliceWyman added note, link for other support resources - see https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/714351?#post-79268
Approved M Marcelo Ghelman Default browser on most Linux distros
Approved M Tacsipacsi Win7 and original Windows 8 no longer supported, only Windows 8.1 and 10
Approved M Tonnes ended supported -> ended support
Approved M philipp update to reflect final eol for these systems has come. perhaps also change the title of the article to past tense (i can't access this part in the editor)
Approved M AliceWyman Clarified that you can still browse safely with 52esr through August 2018
Approved M philipp replaced broken ms link
Approved M philipp clarify the support end for 52.9.0esr and tweak some outdated sections.
Unreviewed   Chris Peterson Update page to note that ESR 52.9 will be the last version to support XP/Vista
Approved M philipp 52esr will be supported throughout august still
Approved M TyDraniu May => June follow-up
Approved M AliceWyman last 52 ESR update will be in June 2018
Approved M AliceWyman 52 ESR updates end May 2018, other edits (see discussion)
Unreviewed   pdol The final end of life date for Windows XP/Vista has been settled on. Updating article to reflect that date.
Approved M Joni minor rewording of header
Approved M pdol Added a question for Nightly and Aurora users
Approved M AliceWyman added some links, reduced use of "we" and us", other edits
Approved   Lan Typos
Approved MT Joni new article - linked from a blog post
Unreviewed   Joni placeholder

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