:thumbsup from me.
On 14/9/17 7:36 AM, Shane Tomlinson wrote: > Firefox 29 is the first version of Firefox desktop that used Firefox > Accounts > to sign in to Sync [1]. Firefox 29 was released on April 29, 2014. > > In the nearly 3.5 years since Firefox 29 was released, Firefox has aged by > 26 full releases. Perhaps surprisingly, FxA still officially maintains > and supports sign in to Firefox 29. I just tried to make sure I wasn't going > to have to eat those words. It works. Yay us. > > The thing is, as FxA adds more features that are only supported on > Fx >= version N, maintaining support for these old browsers is becoming > increasingly complex, time consuming, and expensive. Our full functional > test > suite now takes an hour to run, many of the tests are for browsers which > have > been unsupported by Mozilla for some time. > > I propose we purposely lose some of the extra baggage by officially dropping > support for Firefox <= current ESR - 1. Why current ESR - 1? Well, Mozilla > officially supports Firefox back to ESR. There are a bunch of companies > that > lag behind even that, and since we are a nice group that doesn't like to > anger > folks, we'll support 2 full ESRs. Current ESR is based on Firefox 52. The > previous ESR was based on Firefox 45. We'd officially support down to > Firefox 45. > > For users that try to sign in to FxA on these old browsers, we could > show some > nice screen that says something along the lines of "Hey, sorry to do > this to you, > but your browser is really really behind the times. For your own safety, > here's > a link the latest and greatest." > > Thoughts? > > Shane > > > [1] - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/29.0/releasenotes/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Sync-dev mailing list > Sync-dev@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev > _______________________________________________ Sync-dev mailing list Sync-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/sync-dev
