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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."
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
Catch a tiger by its toe.
If he hollers, let him go.
Eenie, meenie, miney, moe.
The nursery rhyme above is actually an old racist saying from our dead brothers in the Southeastern United States. It is about searching out and recapturing escaped slaves. It's been several decades since slave ownership has been illegal in our country, but children are still taught this seemingly innocuous little rhyme.
Like the rhyme, OS X Tiger is something that we should just let go of at this point. There is no reason why someone should stick with the outdated and terribly vulnerable OS in the face of a better OS X version. Does the Snow Leopard change his spots? Yes, as much as American culture can turn its back on its past.