For many years, Mozilla has continued to provide Firefox for 32-bit Linux systems long after most other browsers and operating systems ended support. We made this choice because we care ...
There’s hardware as recent as like mid-late 2000s that’s 32bit. That’s still within the realm of stuff that consumers might be using, let alone corporate/industrial applications.
Even if Firefox leaves us behind, the kernel likely won’t stop supporting it for years to come. We just removed 486 support. Surely 32bit support will be around a while.
Nobody stops you from using a version there’s in 32-bit…
And no - there’s not much hardware out there, who doesn’t run 64-bit now… Even Linux is slowly moving away from 32-bit…
There’s hardware as recent as like mid-late 2000s that’s 32bit. That’s still within the realm of stuff that consumers might be using, let alone corporate/industrial applications.
Even if Firefox leaves us behind, the kernel likely won’t stop supporting it for years to come. We just removed 486 support. Surely 32bit support will be around a while.
20yr old tech shouldn’t be on the Internet.
E: this hard and fast rule gives my laptop another 9 years.
But fr… Industrial/medical… That shit shouldn’t be on the Internet, it should be isolated. Consumer gear…? It lived it’s life.