 Mozilla to end support for Tiger!, (Bummer) |
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 Feb 8 2010, 08:57 PM
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 TS Palindrome (Danger Will Gates!) Group: Members Posts: 4,770 Joined: 19-August 01 From: Lawrence, Kansas Member No.: 659 My Mac(s): iMAC dual-core Intel, eMAC's, G4-800MHz, G3, Aluminum Powerbook G4, Powerbook 5300  |
Apparently they want to stop supporting Tiger in Firefox:
QUOTE "We have 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. We have 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 codeAas admits that supporting Tiger is a "hindrance", but admits that the decision isn't quite as clear cut as the foundation would like. According to its own usage figures, 24% of people running the Mac version of Firefox 3.5 rely on Tiger, bolstered by a further 12% of Firefox 3.6 users. I would actually pay somewhat for continued support! -------------------- If there really is no beer in heaven then maybe at least the computers will work all of the time! |
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Feb 9 2010, 12:37 AM
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 Happy Group: Admin2 Posts: 5,112 Joined: 2-April 02 From: central coast of Oregon Member No.: 995 My Mac(s): 24" iMac (10.5.8), MacBook Pro Intel Core Duo/2.0 GHz (10.4.11), Safari and Apple Mail |
If they dump 10.4, they'll lose 2 users in this house. Hello ... Safari? Camino? Who knows.
-------------------- "Always remember: If you're alone in the kitchen and you drop the lamb, you can always just pick it up. Who's going to know?" -- Julia Child
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Feb 9 2010, 09:29 AM
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 Patience is for humans! Group: Admin-Retired Posts: 15,260 Joined: 16-November 00 From: Memphis, TN area Member No.: 234 My Mac(s): 24" alum iMac 2.8GHz, 10.6.2, 2GB SDRAM, 15" 2008(late) MBP 2.4GHz, 10.6.2, 4GB SDRAM |
"Tiger is soooo Twentieth Century!"
Sorry, that does sound uncaring.  But, I think there are just too many core processes in the newer Leopard OSs that makes getting them into any Tiger app means a whole lot of extra code and maintenance, not to mention finding programmers who are still using that OS enough to know the problems.As was mentioned in another thread, I think we will see things like this happening more and more as the OSs capabilities advance. Probably in open source and smaller company third-party apps first. It will simply take too much time to address multiple and quite different OSs. my .0002˘ -------------------- I'll be out of the office for the next few weeks. In my absence, please direct any urgent inquiries to Maya Sistant.
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Feb 9 2010, 10:00 AM
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TS Palindrome (Danger Will Gates!) Group: Members Posts: 4,770 Joined: 19-August 01 From: Lawrence, Kansas Member No.: 659 My Mac(s): iMAC dual-core Intel, eMAC's, G4-800MHz, G3, Aluminum Powerbook G4, Powerbook 5300 |
I'm not too fond of Safari but I guess I don't really surf on one of the machines I'm concerned about; mostly just use iTunes to go to radio stations.
-------------------- If there really is no beer in heaven then maybe at least the computers will work all of the time! |
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