Re: Intent to deprecate: MacOS 10.6-10.8 support

[Anthony Jones]

My understanding is that the reason people stick to 10.6 is because of Rosetta[1] which offers PowerPC compatibility. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(software) Chrome is dropping support for these platforms so it seems like an opportunity to pick up some of their discarded users. I'd rather have a 1% gain in market share than a 1% loss. The question is whether supporting 10.6 costs us more than 1% of our resources. Some people may upgrade from 10.7 or 10.8 but last time I looked at the graph I saw 10.6 was on very slow decay path probably inline with hardware replacement. 10.6 has been more effort to support in the past (i.e. getting decoders working) but I don't think it costs us more to maintain. Anthony On 11/03/2016 11:31, Nathan Froyd wrote: 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 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). I heard much the same thing from the media team when I suggested getting rid of 10.6 support to make our C++ standard library situation easier.  CC'ing Anthony. -Nathan

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