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Mozilla brought its XP and Vista users into a state of ESR, stating that the recent extra time given to the ESR would be its last extension before its end of life. It makes sense given that both operating systems, along with Windows 8.1 dropped in popularity this year, with Windows 7 and 10 increasing in user base. Windows XP entered a full state of ‘end of life’ (EOL) after its extended support release (ESR) expired in 2014 as did Vista’s back in April.

Many companies are dropping support for Windows XP and Vista as of late, with Blizzard moving on from the aging OSs to look towards the future following Microsoft’s departure from mainstream support for these versions of Windows in 20 respectively. This news comes after other companies have chosen to do the same thing.

Now, let's take a quick look at past Web Browser Grand Prix winners and today's contenders.Mozilla is the latest in line to drop support for Windows XP and Vista, announcing that it will no longer update its Firefox browser for the operating systems from June 2018.

Google contends that IE's cookie technology is "widely non-operational".Ġ2/28/12: Google offers up a million dollars in prizes for hacking Chrome.Ġ3/19/12: Google Chrome surpasses Microsoft Internet Explorer in browser market share for a single day.Ġ3/23/12: Even at three years old, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is still the number-two browser, holding an estimated 17% market share, second only to Chrome 17 at 27%.Ġ3/25/12: Microsoft claims Chrome market share statistics are misleading due to Chrome's pre-rendering and the lack of geoweighting by the major stat trackers.Ġ3/27/12: Opera updates to version 11.62 (opens in new tab) on the desktop.Ġ3/28/12: Mozilla launches BrowserQuest, an HTML5 game that looks suspiciously like The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past.Ġ3/28/12: Google releases Chrome 18 to the stable channel.Ġ3/29/12: Mozilla says that the new six-week release cycle for Firefox is not set in stone. The browser is to receive a new JavaScript engine and user interface in Q2.Ġ2/21/12: Microsoft accuses Google of bypassing IE privacy settings. Before we can get to the embarrassingly-low benchmark scores and the answers to these questions, let's get caught up on what has happened in the world of Web browsers since Web Browser Grand Prix 9:Ġ2/15/12: Mozilla spells out its Firefox roadmap for 2012.