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Seems reasonable by Mozilla, to me, given precedents like the new Debian release not doing 32-bit release builds. And doing security updates on ESR for a year
by neilv 1y ago
Seems reasonable by Mozilla, to me, given precedents like the new Debian release not doing 32-bit release builds.
And doing security updates on ESR for a year is decent. (Though people using non-ESR stream builds of Firefox will much sooner have to downgrade to ESR, or be running with known vulnerabilities.)
If it turns out there's a significant number of people who really want Firefox on 32-bit x86, would it be viable for non-Mozilla volunteers to fork the current ESR or main stream, do bugfixes, backport security fixes, and distribute that unofficial or rebranded build?
What about volunteers trying to keep the main stream development backported? Or is that likely to become prohibitively hard at some point? (And if likely to become too hard, is it better to use that as a baseline going forward with maintenance, or to use the ESR as that baseline?)
- niutech 1y agoThere are already 32-bit forks like Waterfox or Pale Moon.