On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 11:48 AM, <cecemi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:04:03 PM UTC-6, Benjamin Smedberg 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 > > I am on 10.6.8 with no plan to upgrade soon. Every beta version beyond v > 44.0b9 causes screen freezes and very slow operation for me. Where do I > find the ESR update? >
Before you update, can I introduce you to Milan, who leads our graphics team, so that he might be able to work with you to get some diagnostic information that can help us identify the cuase of the freezes and slowness? When you're ready, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/ Lawrence _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
