10.6 is the last version with Rosetta. Given how old the machines are that can run 10.6, and given how old 10.6 itself is, it is highly likely that 10.6 customers still have PowerPC apps that they run and they cannot/will not upgrade.
Also, the perception of the Mac community in general is that 10.6 is the most stable release of OS X. If you have old hardware (esp. if you have Power PC apps), there is very little reason to upgrade off of 10.6 until your hardware dies. In the past, when these numbers were run, 10.6 was right on up there with the latest one or two OS X releases in Firefox usage, but 10.7 and 10.8 were almost gone. I do, however, think that supporting 10.6 is a heavy, heavy burden, as its C++ compiler is truly ancient. Just opinion, no recommendations here. Syd Polk sp...@mozilla.com +1-512-905-9904 irc: sydpolk > On Mar 10, 2016, at 17:17, Trevor Saunders <tbsau...@tbsaunde.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 04:01:15PM -0700, Tyler Downer wrote: >> The other thing to note is many of those users can still update to 10.11, >> and I imagine that over the next year that number will continue to go down. > > given they haven't upgraded from 10.6 - 10.8 why do you believe they are > likely to in the future? > > Trev > >> This also provides a decent workaround that our support community can >> recommend in documentation and the forums. >> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Ryan VanderMeulen < >> rvandermeu...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> >>> 25% is pretty close for 10.6-10.8 combined. However, the current proposal >>> includes security patches for nearly a year still (putting them on the >>> ESR45 train), so construing this as abandoning those users seems like it's >>> going a bit far. >>> >>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> firefox-dev mailing list >>>> firefox-...@mozilla.org >>>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> firefox-dev mailing list >>> firefox-...@mozilla.org >>> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Tyler Downer >> Project Manager, User Advocacy >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-platform mailing list >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
