Users of the open source Web browser who are still using Tiger will be able to continue to use Firefox 3.6 for as long as they want, but the browser will stop receiving updates "several months" after the release of the next major update. The decision means that the code specific to the old operating system will be removed soon, along with any hope of future 10.4 support. Much of the old code was left, however, in case Mozilla had a change in heart. Those numbers total a little under 24 percent of daily Mac Firefox use.Īccording to the discussion, Mozilla stopped supporting Tiger on mozilla-central, the most "cutting edge" repository, in September of 2009. The Mozilla Foundation estimates that there are currently about 1.4 million Tiger users using Firefox 3.5 every day and approximately 36,000 using version 3.6. The change will go into effect later this year when the browser's Gecko rendering engine makes the jump from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3. This comes from a discussion on Google Groups started by Josh Aas, a Mozilla-employed developer working on the project. The next major release of Firefox will not be compatible with Macs running Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger.
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