On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 5/3/16 3:11 AM, Xidorn Quan wrote: > >> > Then we should plan to drop Universal builds in the same release, >>> > because without supporting 10.6 or 32-bit NPAPI plugins, the 32-bit >>> half >>> > of the build is just cruft. >>> >> > That doesn't mean we can't remove 32-bit NPAPI support on OS X sooner than > 53. Most enterprises are probably using Windows and not 32-bit OS X. > > bsmedberg's OS version dashboard (for Firefox 42 in November 2015) says > only 1.4% of OS X users were running 32-bit Firefox. btw, 16.5% of OS X > users were still running 10.6. > > > http://bsmedberg.github.io/telemetry-dashboard/new-pipeline/active-weekly.html > IIRC the problem isn't that people are running 32-bit Firefox it is that certain plugins only have 32-bit versions. So e.g. a 64-bit OS X 10.10 is still running a 32-bit plugin process for certain plugins. I think the data we need is how many users are running 32-bit NPAPI processes on OS X > 10.8 (only the 10.9+ population is relevant because we've dropped 10.6-10.8). Then we can have a conversation about dropping 32-bit NPAPI on OS X before 53. > > > Is there a bug tracking NPAPI removal? >> > > No, so I just filed bug 1269807 (Bugzilla alias "remove-npapi"). Feel free > to add relevant blocking or blocked bugs. > > > Once we drop Silverlight support on OS X, we can fix bug 846566 \o/ >> > > Thanks. I made the "remove-npapi" bug block bug 846566 as a reminder. > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
