(In reply to [:philipp] from comment #55) > is there are a particular technical reason, why this is targetting 52 and upwards? > > i'm asking because we've also seen a couple of OSX 10.6-10.8 users stranded on firefox 48 [1] inquiring what's the remedy for them in support channels. if there are no technical hurdles, extending this system addon to versions 48 upwards would therefore be appreciated. > > (incidentally firefox 48 was also the first version where `xpinstall.signatures.required` didn't take effect any longer and affected users don't have an easy workaround) > > [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-osx > [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Timeline I'm not sure if the current extension will work and we have limited resources (dev, QA) so unsupported releases tend to be best-effort. 52 in particular was chosen because it is the previous ESR, and the last release that supported Windows XP. Going back much further is technically challenging for Mozilla (see above) and likely to be a vanishingly small set of users. We may be able to provide docs so users could attempt to patch it themselves, but we're putting more effort on 52+ for the moment.
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(In reply to [:philipp] from comment #55) > is there are a particular technical reason, why this is targetting 52 and upwards? > > i'm asking because we've also seen a couple of OSX 10.6-10.8 users stranded on firefox 48 [1] inquiring what's the remedy for them in support channels. if there are no technical hurdles, extending this system addon to versions 48 upwards would therefore be appreciated. > > (incidentally firefox 48 was also the first version where `xpinstall.signatures.required` didn't take effect any longer and affected users don't have an easy workaround) > > [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-osx > [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Extension_Signing#Timeline I'm not sure if the current extension will work back to 48, and we have limited resources (dev, QA) so unsupported releases tend to be best-effort. 52 in particular was chosen because it is the previous ESR, and the last release that supported Windows XP. Going back much further is technically challenging for Mozilla (see above) and likely to be a vanishingly small set of users. We may be able to provide docs so users could attempt to patch it themselves, but we're putting more effort on 52+ for the moment.