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    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Friday, September 05, 2025 18:45:07
    Firefox to end 32-bit Linux support in 2026

    Date:
    Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:34:07 +0000

    Description:
    Mozilla has announced that the end is near for Firefox on 32-bit Linux systems: 32-bit Linux is no longer widely supported by the vast majority of Linux distributions, and maintaining Firefox on this platform has
    become increasingly difficult and unreliable. To focus our efforts on delivering the best and most modern Firefox, we are ending support for
    32-bit Linux with the release of Firefox 144 (or to rephrase, Firefox
    145 will not have 32-bit Linux support). If you are currently using Firefox
    on a 32-bit Linux system, we
    strongly encourage you to move to a 64-bit operating system and
    install the 64-bit version of Firefox, which will continue to be
    supported and updated. Firefox ESR 140 , including 32-bit builds, will
    receive security
    updates " until at least September 2026 ".

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1036917/


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  • From Dumas Walker@1337:3/103 to ALL on Saturday, September 06, 2025 10:41:45
    Firefox to end 32-bit Linux support in 2026

    I no longer have any "GUI" 32 bit systems I am using. Only one I can think
    of is a headless pi 2. That said, in past, I know some of the "firefox" related projects, like seamonkey and pale moon, have continued supporting things that firefox proper drops support for. I wonder if that will be the case this time?


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to Dumas Walker on Saturday, September 06, 2025 09:22:14
    Dumas Walker wrote to ALL <=-

    "firefox" related projects, like seamonkey and pale moon, have
    continued supporting things that firefox proper drops support for. I wonder if that will be the case this time?

    I wish. I love SeaMonkey, it's a nostalgic throwback to my old Netscape Communicator days. It crashes constantly on newer versions of Windows 10
    and 11 - hopefully linux is more stable.

    I like being able to install one app on the BBS and be able to have IRC,
    mail and news with one portable binary. SeaMonkey is perfect for that.




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  • From Dumas Walker@1337:3/103 to POINDEXTER FORTRAN on Sunday, September 07, 2025 11:03:18
    "firefox" related projects, like seamonkey and pale moon, have
    continued supporting things that firefox proper drops support for. I wonder if that will be the case this time?

    I wish. I love SeaMonkey, it's a nostalgic throwback to my old Netscape Communicator days. It crashes constantly on newer versions of Windows 10
    and 11 - hopefully linux is more stable.

    I like being able to install one app on the BBS and be able to have IRC,
    mail and news with one portable binary. SeaMonkey is perfect for that.

    I have not tried it in years and, honestly, I am not sure if it is even available for *nix anymore. I used to use it on OS/2 Warp 4 because most
    other browers that'd work with that OS were no longer kept up to date.

    There was finally an update where the latest version quit working on my machine... it had severe display issues... so I had to quit updating it.
    IIRC, it may have had a dependency that I couldn't install on that machine.
    But it was a fair browser for that time period and, like you say, being
    able to do more than browse was handy!


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