On Thursday 2016-05-26 15:21 -0700, Robert Strong wrote: > 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.
There's a screenshot in: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255588#c8 (and #c9) (which is the bug that made the necessary changes for the Mac OS X support change in Firefox 49). -David > 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 -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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