{"id":2706,"date":"2020-06-23T17:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=2706"},"modified":"2020-06-25T17:19:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:19:56","slug":"update-on-firefox-support-for-macos-10-9-10-10-and-10-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2020\/06\/23\/update-on-firefox-support-for-macos-10-9-10-10-and-10-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Firefox Support for macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 30th, macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users will automatically be moved to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/enterprise\/\">Firefox Extended Support Release<\/a> (ESR).<\/p>\n<p>While Apple doesn\u2019t have an official policy governing security updates for older macOS releases, their ongoing practice has been to support the most recent three releases (i.e. version N, N-1, and N-2). The last security update applicable to macOS 10.11 was made available nearly 2 years ago in July 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201222\">https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201222<\/a>). Unsupported operating systems receive no security updates, have known exploits, and can be dangerous to use, which makes it difficult and less than optimal to maintain Firefox for those versions.<\/p>\n<p>Users do not need to take additional action to receive those updates. On June 30th, these macOS users will automatically be moved to the ESR channel through application update.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we strongly encourage our users to upgrade to mac OS X 10.12 or higher to benefit from the security and privacy updates.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please visit the Firefox<a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/macos-users-esr\"> support page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 30th, macOS 10.9, 10.10 and 10.11 users will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR). 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