![]() Waterfox G3 can use it's own profile separate from Firefox so they can run at the same time. To bad Waterfox G4 is for MacOS 10.12 or later because we could have had Firefox 90, dang it.Īlthough I'll probably be running it on my MacBook Air with Catalina as soon as I get it tomorrow along side the latest Firefox. ![]() It works great has lots of extra preferences and you can set it up to have a theme and some other stuff.įrom what I read about Waterfox it's not the best Browser even compared to Firefox but Firefox ESR isn't either.Īt least it's an alternative for El Capitan. You can download the last version for El Capitan from Here it says it is for OSX Mavericks or Newer but I downloaded, installed and am runing it right now on my MacBook 5,2 with OSX 10.11.6 El Capitan it is however 64bit. WaterFox is built for Speed and Security, and anything is better than plain old Esr. The organization has all the figures at hand to make an educated decision on the other hand.I was just able to track down the last version of Waterfox G3 based on Gecko 78.15.1 only slightly better than the Latest Firefox esr 78.15.0 that is supported for El Capitan. With Mozilla's market share not looking that rosy, I'd expect the company to retain users whenever possible even if that means supporting older operating system versions. Mozilla has not shut out users from installing Firefox on unsupported systems in the past but these don't receive support from the company and bugs specific to these systems won't be fixed either. I could not find exact Mac OS usage figures but the decision will certainly impact some Firefox users. Google Chrome's current system requirements on Mac require OS X Yosemite 10.10 or later. ![]() Note that the stat includes all Mac versions except for Catalina, Mojave and High Sierra. Mozilla's Hardware dashboard provides no details on the soon to be retired Mac OS X versions these are likely filed under macOS Other and had a share of 2.2% in February 2020. Firefox Nightly or Beta, are affected by Mozilla's decision to end support.įirefox ESR 78 won't receive new feature updates but will receive bug fixes and security updates. It is unclear if and how other Firefox channel installations, e.g. Mac OS X users of Firefox who still use these older versions of the Mac OS X operating system will be able to use Firefox ESR for another year before support runs out. We're looking at moving users on versions < 10.12 to the esr branch with the release of Firefox 78, to both be able to support them for about a year longer, and reduce the burden from old versions on engineering and QA for mainline Firefox.Ī meta bug has been created on Bugzilla that tracks the migration process. We currently support macOS versions 10.9 to 10.15. Why is that done? Mozilla notes on Bugzilla: Mozilla plans to end support for Mac OS 10.9 to 10.11 (Mac OS X Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan) next year Firefox Stable installations on these systems will be migrated to Firefox ESR 78 when the new version is released on June 30, 2020. The release of Firefox 78 and Firefox ESR 78 changes that. On Mac OS, Firefox is compatible with Mac OS 10.9 to Mac OS 10.15 and users may install any Firefox channel on these devices. These changes are pushed to Firefox ESR when a new major version is released.Ĭurrent versions of Firefox are compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. Firefox ESR is updated as frequently as Firefox Stable but the core difference is that Firefox ESR versions won't receive all the changes of Firefox Stable releases.
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