<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> It might be easier than you think. ESR is the tough case, but most of<br>
> our active users are on recent versions of Firefox.<br>
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</span>My instinct is to be incredibly conservative when breaking behaviour<br>
that old Firefoxen depend on, but I've never really had to quantify it.<br>
What should our definition of "sufficiently low usage" be that would<br>
let us consider disabling the assertion endpoints entirely?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This might be obvious, but it probably bears repeating that it's not just quantity of affected users but also the impact on those users.</div><div><br></div><div>If we display a nice update prompt, then fine; if we silently spew errors into the log and just stop syncing, then that changes the equation somewhat.</div><div><br></div><div>(And if we know the distribution of # of clients for each version, perhaps that helps — if most of our ancient-version users have only one device, perhaps we care less about breaking them.)</div></div></div></div>