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Asa Dotzler  
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 More options Feb 5 2010, 8:50 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:50:56 -0800
Local: Fri, Feb 5 2010 8:50 pm
Subject: Re: Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3
On 2/5/2010 5:03 PM, Forrest wrote:

> 50% of the Mac's here can't run anything newer than OSX 10.4.x because
> they're running a 700 MHz G3 and a 700 MHz G4 processor. One of these
> machines is used on daily basis. I strongly suggest you rethink your
> strategy of dropping OSX 10.4 support.

We have much better statistics than your anecdotal evidence of usage. If
you'd read the original post carefully, you'd have seen that we have
fairly precise numbers for people using Firefox on 10.4 and so your
advocacy on this front with far less precise numbers isn't helpful.

> Judging from the comments I've read on some Mac support forums, most
> folks say they're not happy with OSX 10.5 performance unless they're
> running an Intel Mac - and those have only been shipping for 4 years.

10.5 and 10.6 far outweigh 10.4 according to all of the publicly
available measures.

Over 80% of Macs, as reported here
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qp...
are running 10.5 or 10.6 and those running 10.4 are dropping off at
about 10% per month.
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=11&qpcustom=Mac%20O...

In one year, I expect 10.4 to account for less than 5% of Mac OS X users
and at that point it will have less prominence than Windows 98.

- A


 
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