On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 07:49:26AM +0800, Kyle Huey wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:03 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> > wrote: > > > This is notice of an intent to deprecate support within Firefox for the > > following old versions of MacOS: 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 > > > > The motivation for this change is that we have continued failures that are > > specific to these old operating systems and don't have the resources on > > engineering teams to prioritize these bugs. Especially with the deployment > > of e10s we're seeing intermittent and permanently failures on MacOS 10.6 > > that we are not seeing elsewhere. We get very little testing of old MacOS > > versions from our prerelease testers and cannot dedicate much paid staff > > testing support to these platforms. We also have an increasingly fragile > > set of old hardware that supports automated tests on 10.6 and do not intend > > to replace this. > > > > This will affect approximately 1.2% of our current release population. > > Here are the specific breakdowns by OS version: > > 10.6 > > 0.66% > > 10.7 > > 0.38% > > 10.8 > > 0.18% > > > > The final timeframe for this deprecation has not been finalized, but the > > current proposal is to remove support in Firefox 46. We will try and update > > existing users on old MacOS versions to the Firefox 45 ESR release stream, > > so that they stay with security update support through the end of 2016. > > > > Because of the ESR update window, I would like to finalize this decision > > by Monday. If you have questions or concerns about this plan, please reply > > to the firefox-dev mailing list immediately. Jeff Griffiths will be working > > with our communications team to coordinate more public communications such > > as post to the Future of Firefox blog. > > > > --BDS > > > > Why can't we just not ship e10s to these users? We have a number of other > populations we're not shipping to, at least for now.
This is actually a sensible option. A not-quite top-notch but up-to-date Firefox is still better than old versions of Firefox or other browsers. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
