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. 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
