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 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
