On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:03:43PM -0500, 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%
It's unfair to mention those populations by percentage of the global Firefox population. What are those percentages relative to the number of OSX users? ISTR 10.6 represented something like 25% of the OSX users, which is a totally different story (but maybe I'm mixing things with Windows XP). Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
