This forum is not so good that is worth stopping Windows 7 support.
What do you mean? Who or what is stopping supporting Windows 7 and in which way, and how is it related to this forum specifically?
I am sorry if this was a wrong forum. What is a correct forum then.
I am using newest version of Windows 7 FireFox. I know from Arduino forums that there will be problems. Luckily I can use Win10 too, so all is not lost, but this will cause delays.
I saw that one as well at some point and chose to ignore it. Just zap it on the X and forget about it.
It often happens because I’m using a non-mainstream browser (Brave).
But the admins should turn off this kind of silliness, it just creates noise.
May be not forum, but post:
I am planning to move from Opera to FireFox because I was told that it has some add-on that adds functionality making browser working at Win7 having functionality that was added in Win10.
I don’t know if you have to intentionally install this add-on or simply using newest version is enough.
This forum just uses the software. No one here has any control over what the developers do. If you click on “learn more” where does it go?
Connecting to the Internet to access forums etc with a Windows 7 machine is reckless these days. There are way too many well known and exploited security holes in Windows 7 since MS abandoned support.
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They are not detecting if you have Windows 7. They are detecting you have a Firefox version that is too old.
The last version that supported Windows 7 is Firefox 115 released on July 2023, that’s not particularly new and with how fast web standards change, it is going out of date pretty fast. That is what the forum software is warning you about. The developers of the forum software want to use newer and newer features not found in already aged out browsers.
Please open a thread on the mozilla discourse (https://discourse.mozilla.org/) asking them to support windows7 (or install linux)
If you put an extra EUR50 SSD in your computer, you can very easily install Linux on that and then use the functions of your BIOS / UEFI from which disk you boot. This way you don’t have to mess with bootloaders, and you do not have to change a single bit on the installation of your windows SSD.
Another option is to use any sort of OS in a VM to run anything internet related.
Win 7 has been EOL for over 5 years. It’s time to upgrade.
The line has to be drawn somewhere otherwise how far do you expect developers to go back. Support XP, NT, 95?
IF your hard drive is easy to swap out, I’d suggest getting a new one and installing Linux on it. Keep you WIN7 drive for when you need it.
I’m confused. Why on earth should the OP suddenly switch to Linux? If he/she is happy with Win7, then fine.
Is this some kind of missionary zeal?
The warning applies to the browser version, not the OS.
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This thread isn’t going anywhere productive.
If the user can’t update the browser on Win7, I simply offered an alternative. You do see my solution is based on whether or not they can EASILY change out the hard drive? This lets them keep Win7 in tact risk free. No dual boot. No playing with partitions that risk their current install and data.
There is NOTHING we can do from this end for them if Discourse obsoletes their browser.