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Offline nick65go

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firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?
« on: September 05, 2025, 03:39:06 PM »
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Ending-32-bit-Linux
My understanding is that no many (if any) TC developers compile Firefox from sources. So most TC users grab a Firefox using a smart script (get-firefox-latest.sh) to grab already compiled Firefox from horse mouth. From year 2026 this will not be possible, and no Firefox securities / updates will be available easy to download for 32 bits.

This is an important / unfair kick in the back for understaffed /hobby Linux distros . At least for me, without Firefox browser I will not touch a distro for production or important LIVE things.
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Re: firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?
« Reply #1 on: September 05, 2025, 04:18:25 PM »
I’ve compiled Firefox for tinycore/piCore a number of times, it’s been difficult to do so for x86 for some time now.

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Re: firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2025, 06:57:56 AM »
haven't tried/used seamonkey for a few years but it looks like they still do 32bit:

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#official
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Re: firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2025, 01:32:03 PM »
haven't tried/used seamonkey for a few years but it looks like they still do 32bit:
I own a Dell INSPIRON mini 10, CPU is Intel Atom A270 at 1.6GHz with 1GB RAM and 16GB SSD, display 10 inch, from stone age (year 2006-2009 maybe). It doesn't have a scratch, perfect functional (if you forget the dead battery). So it has no x86-64 instructions.

Except this laptop, I can bet that (almost) never in my life I will BUY a device with CPU on 32 bits + BIOS. First of all that all NEW laptops are UEFI + 64 bits CPU (in the countries where I travel /stay), and I do not intent to buy old devices (they can be near their end of life because wearing parts, excessive usage etc.).

Therefore 32 bits will be useful in containers, isolated / virtual machines , in our days of concern about security and privacy (for people who care). At least is a step in the right direction for protection, and speed.


FYI: Ideal software for me is code written in ASM (machine code) as Kolibri OS, or maybe x32 (small pointers 32 bits + large CPU registries 64 bits), but not much software as this in Linux distros. https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port
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Re: firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2025, 04:32:32 PM »
haven't tried/used seamonkey for a few years but it looks like they still do 32bit:

https://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/#official

They announced in the release notes for the current version, 2.53.21, that it is planned to be the last release with 32-bit support.