Re: Proposed changes to RelEng's OSX build and test infrastructure

cided to mark 10.7 or 10.8 as tier 2 or otherwise less supported. I don't mind assuming that 10.6/10.9 tests oughta catch most of the problems, but if they miss one and we break 10.7/10.8, I'd expect us to find a solution for that, or back out if the bustage is significant and not easi

Re: devolution of cleartype rendering in Fx chrome

t finds a one-day range, and then give you an hg-link to the range itself. Awfully helpful, and yet I'm often surprised to find that people don't know about it. J --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox @johnath ___ dev-platform

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

plan to make plugins click-to-play. Benjamin blogged with what's actually happening: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/ --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox @johnath ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Getting the current release version

(I like Ed's answer more, though) On Aug 30, 2013, at 10:17 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: > I don't know if it will serve your purposes, but wiki.mo does have: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Template:CURRENT_VERSION > > and derivatives: > > https://wiki.mo

Re: Getting the current release version

not have to hand-edit that anymore. > > -- > Eric Shepherd > Developer Documentation Lead > Mozilla > Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ > Twitter: @sheppy > > ___ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozill

Re: [Advance warning] Session Restore is changing, will break add-ons

l). J [1] http://mozilla.github.io/process-releases/draft/development_overview/ Ancient, and shows it, but still relevant for this case. See "Moving work from one channel to another" --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox Engineering @johnath ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Increasing our Aurora and Nightly user populations?

; in version numbers or checking for the latest updates. These users might be > receptive to a channel upsell message to get an even bigger version number. :) --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox Engineering @johnath ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Turning off window.Components for the web

re very much a thing that pushes those users to launch another browser. Each time they do, there's some <100% chance that we get them back. I know that the precautionary principle can be paralytic but, in the absence of a significant win, I agree with Ehsan and Benjamin here that I&#

Re: Tablet vs. Touch: decision

again is the ideal. Yeah, I think what's missing in the current proposal is a clear statement of benefit. I agree that the downside seems small with this one. J --- Johnathan Nightingale VP Firefox Engineering @johnath ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform