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
