Releng note: if we stop it, we could also get much better test capacity
on tbpl as we could re-purpose our 10.6 test infrastructure.
cheers,
Armen
On 2013-10-21 1:14 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Note that we also use this to support 32-bit plugins, so our target
audience is not just 10.6 users.
We removed the feature that allows users to easily restart in 32-bit
mode in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=850925 (Firefox
22).
Gavin
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 6:27 AM, Philip Chee philip.c...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/10/2013 01:14, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Note that we also use this to
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
Note that we also use this to support 32-bit plugins,
For reference, even though Flash and Java are 64-bit on Mac, notable
32-bit plug-ins include:
* Silverlight (DRM for Netflix)
* Widevine Media Optimizer (DRM for
On 22/10/13 07:54 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
so our target audience
is not just 10.6 users.
s/10.6/first Intel Mac Mini and first MacBook/, right? 10.6 on 64-bit
CPUs runs 64-bit apps even when the kernel runs as 32-bit.
Yes. That's the case.
Hub
On Oct 22, 2013, at 1:27 AM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote:
If there are and we still need to support them despite dropping 10.6
(which I'm not advocating, but i understand it'd be an option), I wonder
if it would be possible, and how much work it would be, to make the
plugin-container
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:00:13PM -0400, Hubert Figuière wrote:
On 21/10/13 07:27 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
AFAIK, running 10.7+ in 32-bit mode is something you have to do manually
at boot time. I guess nobody does that except for testing purpose. Also,
afaik 10.7+ doesn't support 32-bit-only
[Not sure if this is strictly dev-platform material; dev-planning might have
been more appropriate in some respects.]
Our Firefox builds for OS X currently build a 32-bit version, a 64-bit version,
and then squash those together to produce a universal binary that runs on
32-bit or 64-bit
On 21/10/13 17:24 , Nathan Froyd wrote:
[Not sure if this is strictly dev-platform material; dev-planning might have
been more appropriate in some respects.]
Our Firefox builds for OS X currently build a 32-bit version, a 64-bit version,
and then squash those together to produce a universal
Note that we also use this to support 32-bit plugins, so our target
audience is not just 10.6 users.
Cheers,
Ehsan
On 2013-10-21 11:24 AM, Nathan Froyd wrote:
[Not sure if this is strictly dev-platform material; dev-planning might have
been more appropriate in some respects.]
Our Firefox
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:24:15AM -0700, Nathan Froyd wrote:
How long do we intend to continue shipping a 32-bit Firefox binary on
OS X? As I understand it, we're doing this solely for our OS X 10.6
users, as they are the only ones potentially running OS X on
non-64-bit capable machines.
On 10/21/13 3:28 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
Note OS X 10.6 runs in 32-bit mode*by default*, even on *64-bit
capable* hardware. That's the whole problem. There are only a few
Macbook models that aren't 64-bit capable. There are much more OSX
installs that run in 32-bit mode.
But the boat anchor is
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 04:07:33PM -0700, Chris Peterson wrote:
On 10/21/13 3:28 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
Note OS X 10.6 runs in 32-bit mode*by default*, even on *64-bit
capable* hardware. That's the whole problem. There are only a few
Macbook models that aren't 64-bit capable. There are much
On 21/10/13 07:07 PM, Chris Peterson wrote:
On 10/21/13 3:28 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
Note OS X 10.6 runs in 32-bit mode*by default*, even on *64-bit
capable* hardware. That's the whole problem. There are only a few
Macbook models that aren't 64-bit capable. There are much more OSX
installs
On 21/10/13 07:27 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
AFAIK, running 10.7+ in 32-bit mode is something you have to do manually
at boot time. I guess nobody does that except for testing purpose. Also,
afaik 10.7+ doesn't support 32-bit-only mac hardware.
You are confusing the kernel vs the userland. If the
On 22/10/2013 01:14, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
Note that we also use this to support 32-bit plugins, so our target
audience is not just 10.6 users.
I thought we recently removed 32-bit plugin support on OS X.
Phil
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