Mozilla Puts Tiger Out To Pasture

Barence writes "Mozilla is ready to exorcise support for Mac OS X 10.4 from Firefox's development code, closing the door on Apple's aging OS. The foundation stopped supporting 10.4, codenamed Tiger, in September 2009, but, according to Josh Aas, a Mozilla platform engineer, 'we left much of the code required to support that platform in the tree in case we wanted to reverse that decision." We had come to a point where we need to make a final decision and either restore 10.4 support or remove this (large) amount of 10.4 specific code,' he notes on the Mozilla developer planning forum."

Comments

Re:XP is dead weight

[smash]

I wouldn't go proclaiming XP numbers out there to be justification for not dropping some other OS. Just because windows users are largely brain damaged, it doesn't mean OS X users have to be as well.

Its HIGH TIME people moved off XP as well. Any half decent hardware that was purchased in 2004 will run Vista/7 just fine, and XP is just a basket-case of an OS these days with a variety of broken policy settings (can't give people ability to manage power settings without local admin?? haha) and limited remote management (go check out powershell 2.0 and some of the new management tools).

Re:Nooo !

[Space cowboy]

Dude. Seriously. Learn to use XCode.