Firefox is not so tied to the system that IE is therefore it's likely
to work the same on any service pack of a given MS system. Exceptions
to this may be big changes like XP SP2 which are like a major upgrade.
Also due to the fact that nightly builds are available and many
people download them to test them we can be sure that there's people
with all sorts of weird configurations from early versions of Windows
9x up to XP with various levels of patches applied, some people are
probably also running it on test builds of Longhorn.
We also have users testing nightly builds in literally hundreds of
different Linux configurations, and various releases of MacOS.
Having volunteers to test nightly builds can really help fix bugs
that wouldn't be detected otherwise, bugs that may only occur with some
obscure hardware installed.
It'd be nice to see nightly builds of IE, it'd certainly keep
people interested in the progress being made. In the Firefox world Ben
can post on his blog about this cool feature he's just implemented and
people can download a test build the next day.
The only problem is the IE install is a bit of a pain, unless you
follow the hack that allows multiple versions on the same machine.
Please, make it so we don't need to reboot after installing IE
anymore. Make the install as simple as Firefox (you can run an
installer, or you can even just unzip a file into any directory)
Note: in Firefox Windows 95 is not supported (just like the IE team
have found it too much hassle to support), however the Mozilla suite
(at version 1.7.2 at this time) supports Windows 95 still, so Win95
users haven't been totally neglected.
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