We've dropped support for platforms before - Win9x back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, Win2k, All OSX on PPC as of Firefox 4.0, OSX 10.4 and earlier as of I'm not sure when. See:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-mac-os-10-4-or-powerpc https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-some-versions-windows-xp https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-no-longer-works-windows-2000 Also, some historical bugs: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330276 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359808 Manufacturer-EOL doesn't seem to be the driving factor in that decision. It looks mostly about how many of our users are still on the platform v. the resources we have available to support them. XP is unusual for its longevity and market base - is it still more than a third of our users? That wouldn't surprise me - but I don't think there's ever been a formal criteria or roadmap for dropping support. - mhoye ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kyle Huey" <[email protected]> > To: "PARET Sebastien" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Asa Dotzler" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:08:29 AM > Subject: Re: End of XP support in April 2014: what about Mozilla products? > > Asa can give you the official word here but the end of support from > Microsoft is unlikely to effect our decision to support Windows XP, which > will be based on how many users we have still running XP (among other > things). _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
