[whoopdedo]

Windows 7 is 12.9% of Firefox installs and the second most used OS.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware

[lurtbancaster]

Mozilla presumably collects this operating system version data on new installs of Firefox upon first run.

I wonder how the analytics of Firefox forks are tracked. If they can even be tracked.

Tor Browser, LibreWolf et al privacy friendly forks, block Mozilla's data collection on startup and they spoof the user agent to Windows NT 10.0 regardless of if you run them on Windown 7, 8, 10 or 11.

[ororroro]

3rd most installs. Windows 11 identifies as windows 10 for reasons.

[Dalewyn]

That's because the kernel identifies as NT10.0. Internally it's the same as Windows 10.

Similarly, Windows 2000 and XP identify as NT5.0 and 5.1 respectively, and Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 identify as NT6.0, 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3 respectively.

Incidentally, this is also why drivers often are cross-compatible along certain Windows versions.

[XCSme]

What does NT stand for?

[Dalewyn]

There are a number of theories and backstories[1], but most commonly it's understood that it once stood for New Technology.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT#Naming

[nikanj]

Neither Edge nor Chrome support Windows 7, so it's not surprising a lot of Firefox users are on Windows 7 - because the other options are no longer available on Windows 7

[Gigachad]

Steam also dropped windows 7 recently.

[Dalewyn]

Dropping*

Formal drop is set to occur on New Year's 2024.

[hulitu]

Edge came after Win 10.

[flangola7]

This is terrifying. Windows 7 was EoL in early 2020. If you're in a time where you've heard about COVID-19 you shouldn't be using 7.

[hulitu]

Why not ? Win 10 is a terrible OS.

[flangola7]

Because you haven't received security updates in three years and are one bad HTTP GET from becoming a botnet node or ransomware victim. I loathe W10 but I loathe being hacked more.

[pajko]

https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB502...

[hulitu]

> one bad HTTP GET from becoming a botnet node or ransomware victim

Just like in Windows 10 and 11.