> 1) Is the TenFourFox team interested in expanding their OS range, or
> doing a TenFiveFox?
This is really a three part question:
- We do support 10.5 PPC and have users who run it on 10.5. It is the
"minority" OS based on my version ping data, but a significant
minority.
- We only build against the 10.4 SDK, because we specifically support
G3 and Classic users. Heck, all of my PPCs and my daily driver quad G5
run 10.4; Power Macs seem to bog down in Leopard. I certainly have no
plans to drop support for it -- it's just a matter of what we can hack
to build.
- I have no plans to build or support an Intel 10.5 version
specifically. I only have a single Intel C2D Mac, and it will shortly
be running Lion so I can still use it for Android development (that's
all I use it for). People can run TenFourFox in Rosetta (unsupported)
and this is known to work, and if someone takes the 10.4Fx patches and
spins them into an Intel version I would be happy to direct people to
that project, but 10.4Fx will itself always be PPC. This would not be
difficult to manage; they would just need to undo the PowerPC-specific
stuff. The rest of it should "just work." It may need some minor
changes to build properly against the 10.5 SDK since I don't test
that.
> 2) What would we recommend to 10.5 users to do when it is no longer
> supported? Here is our current advice:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Unsupported_OSes
>
> (Relatedly: if 10.4 and 10.5 are no longer supported by Apple, should we
> be recommending TenFourFox, or should we be telling people to upgrade,
> for the reasons given at the bottom of that page?)
All 10.5 Intel Macs can upgrade, given sufficient RAM, to 10.6. There
are good reasons for Power Mac users not moving to 10.5, but I'm not
aware of any reasons for any Intel owner to stay with 10.5. (10.4,
yes, because it could still run CFM Carbon binaries with Rosetta, IIRC
-- 10.5 only runs Mach-O.)
> 3) Is there a possibility that we might recommend an ESR to people who
> are unable to run the latest Firefox but still want something which is
> supported? (I suspect not, but it's worth asking the question.)
This to me really seems like the best option. It's pretty much the
role 3.6 is serving now, unofficially.
Cameron Kaiser