By design, dmg's don't do anything. There's no installer, just a container with the executable ready to run. Nils reported in the other thread that we just crash at launch time on 10.6, which is unfortunate. I'd hoped Apple would show a 'not supported on this version' dialog. We could including a warning background graphic, but that's a poor experience for unaffected users.
-r On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Robert Strong <rstr...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Users won't get updated to an unsupported version and they will be notified > that their system is no longer supported. The notification includes an url > to a page for additional information. > > I'm not familiar with the Mac installer but since it is just a dmg I don't > know if there is much that can be done. It would be a good thing if someone > that knows about dmg's could confirm or make our dmg do the right thing. > > Robert > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Chris Pearce <cpea...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
