A google search on restricting the Mac version produced LSMinimumSystemVersion and I found the following:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/macbuild/Contents/Info.plist.in#208 I don't have a Mac so I can't check what the behavior is. Robert On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Ralph Giles <gi...@mozilla.com> wrote: > 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
