On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 12:04:03 PM UTC-6, 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

I am on 10.6.8 with no plan to upgrade soon. Every beta version beyond v 44.0b9 
causes screen freezes and very slow operation for me.  Where do I find the ESR 
update?
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