25, about 6 million Mac users were running Firefox 3.5 or Firefox 3.6. According to Mozilla, nearly 39 million copies of the new edition have been downloaded since its Jan.

The last time it patched vulnerabilities in Mac OS X 10.4 was September 2009.įirefox 3.6, which runs in Tiger, can be downloaded from Mozilla's site.

Mozilla started to discuss dumping Tiger from its list of supported Mac operating systems in April 2009, just weeks after pondering whether to drop support for older versions of Windows.įor its part, Apple has already retired Tiger from security update support. So in the end my opinion doesn't count for anything.' 'Most just take what they are given and stew in the background. 'As it stands now, it impractical for me update either machine due to lack of funds,' Phillip Jones said in a message today, referring to a pair of PowerPC-based Macs running Tiger. There was only one dissenting voice on the forum, but he took Mozilla to task for ditching him. 'We are often one of the last vendors to continue supporting older Mac OS X releases,' said Aas. Mozilla's policy is to support an edition for approximately six months after a new version ships. Currently, that end-of-support would come sometime in 2011, as Mozilla doesn't expect to deliver a major update to its open-source browser until late this year at the earliest. Half of all users run Firefox 3.5 on Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, while 59% run Firefox 3.6 on OS X 10.6, or Snow Leopard.Īas noted that Tiger users can continue to run Firefox 3.6, which supports the older operating system, until that version is retired from support. According to Mozilla's metrics, 24% of those running the Mac version of Firefox 3.5 rely on Tiger, while 12% of those running the just-released Firefox 3.6 do.

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