791862 - Don't offer Firefox 17 to Mac OS X 10.5 Users

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect, P1)

Description

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Similar to 

bug 643872 – Don't offer Firefox 4 to PPC Mac and Mac OS 

we need to ensure that Firefox downloads >17 are not offered to 10.5 users.

Comment 1

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

So this has to be done before November 20.

Alex: Thanks for notifying us long in advance. I assumed the > is >= here.

Mike: Can you put this in our schedule?

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

(In reply to Anthony Ricaud (:rik) [out between Sept 27 and Oct 1] from comment #1)
> So this has to be done before November 20.
> 
> Alex: Thanks for notifying us long in advance. I assumed the > is >= here.

Correct. Good catch.

Comment 3

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Is this still on track for 11/20 Mike? Just want to make sure we're making any necessary preparations.

Comment 4

[Mike Alexis [:malexis]]

This will get assigned tomorrow in our sprint planning meeting and we're on track for Nov 20 launch.

Comment 5

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

I've submitted a pull request in bug 797647. If it's accepted, the work in this bug should be as simple as this diff in global.js once Firefox 17 is released.
-    if( ! /(PPC|Mac OS X 10.[0-4])/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
+    if( ! /(PPC|Mac OS X 10.[0-5])/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

Comment 6

[Anthony Ricaud (:rik)]

This was fixed with bug 797647.

And pushed to production.

Comment 7

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

verified fixed  using the user-agents 
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0



Users with the above user-agents strings are shown the following message

Your system doesn't meet the requirements to run Firefox.