What will the behaviour be for users on unsupported MacOSX versions? It sounds like existing users won't get updated to a non-supported version.
What about users to try to install Firefox on an unsupported MacOS version? Will the installer show some sort of notification/dialog box saying that their OS is unsupported? Or will Firefox just fail to start or crash mysteriously? cpearce. On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7:04:03 AM UTC+13, 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
