... but this support change allows us to significantly improve Firefox performance on Windows by using a more modern build system.<p>Does anyone have any info on the new build system? Last I checked they still used make which is installed via the mozilla tools.
I wonder why they don't apply
<a href="http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/how-to-get-visual-c-2010-mfc-applications-to-run-on-windows-2000/" rel="nofollow">http://tedwvc.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/how-to-get-visual-c-2...</a>
to fix it and keep it runable on Windows 2000, even though Uniscribe might still show some bugs with Arabic text, etc.
See also: <a href="http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/03/the-end-of-support-f.html" rel="nofollow">http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/03/the-end-...</a>
> <i>In the years since Firefox 3.6, we've make incredible improvements to Firefox, including . . . Firefox Sync</i><p>This is off-topic, but Firefox Sync screwed up my bookmarks on more than one occasion. Nowadays, most of my 5K+ bookmarks have taken refuge in Pinboard, but Firefox 11 with Sync enabled still occasionally loses, duplicates, or randomly reorders the handful of local bookmarks that remain. People used to complain about this when Sync was first released as an add-on to Firefox 3.6. They still haven't fixed it!<p>Overall speed and reliability, on the other hand, has improved beyond recognition. Maybe I should thank Chrome for nudging Firefox to improve.