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Mac OS X 10.4 Support by Mozilla Firefox

The promise of open-source browser said that support for older operating system was an obstacle, but also for users of previous versions of Mac have time before the update.

Mozilla Firefox open source Web browser is now more than 6 million users of Apple Mac While Mozilla has support for Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 and 10.6 Firefox 3.5, as well as the recently released Firefox 3.6, but not all three versions of Mac OS is expected to be funded in the next version of Firefox.

“Mac OS X 10.4 was released in April 2005 and much has changed since then,” wrote Mozilla developer Josh Aas mailing list Post Mozilla. “We use the latest technologies in Mac OS X 10.4 and support was an obstacle. Where we can work on the support of 10.4, it takes valuable time and effort.

What would no longer support the decision of Mac 10.4 direction of the front, Mozilla, adult users of Mac for some time, until we really need to worry. S is currently 24 per cent of Firefox 3.5 “users using Mac OS X 10.4,” he said. This figure was doubled for the new Firefox 3.6, and only 12 percent of Mac OS X 10.4.

Users Mac OS X 10.4 – a statement which is also known as “Tiger” – will continue to support Firefox 3.6 until the end of his life, can not be achieved until 2011. Mozilla recently released a new way of features for Firefox 3.6, called the “Lorenz added a branch”, so that users do not have to wait until the big debut newscast.

Although the Mozilla developers have their arguments in favor of the transition from supporting Mac OS X 10.4 made in the future, not everyone is happy with the decision. For more than a hundred entries were left in the stream list Mozilla Mail on this topic for Mac OS X 10.4 support, available with hints of Apple fans Mozilla Posted by two cents.

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9 February, 2010 (18:35) | Software | By: computerslookup

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