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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."
Funny that Apple doesn't have any problem writing Safari updates that still work on 10.4...
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
The official upgrade cost is around $100. 17% of the cost of a new Mac Mini.
That is hardly Mozilla's problem. People who get suckered into buying a proprietary OS have to realize that they will have to buy every upgrade if they are to run the latest software.