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Abandon is too strong a word. I imagine most people who are still using 32 bit operating systems aren't too concerned about getting the very latest version of f
by gweinberg 1y ago
Abandon is too strong a word. I imagine most people who are still using 32 bit operating systems aren't too concerned about getting the very latest version of firefox either.
- yreg 1y agoThey might not be concerned, but websites using new standards will slowly start to break for them.
- ryan-ca 1y agoPolyfills are standard for websites to be compatible with older browsers.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 1y agoIt will all break in time. These things that look like institutions, that look like bricks carved from granite, are just spinning plates that have been spinning for a few years. When I fight glibc dependency hell across Ubuntu 22 and Ubuntu 24, I sympathize with Firefox choosing to spin the 64-bit plates and not the 32-bit plates.
- ryan-ca 1y agoNot applicable, though javascript is a programming language not a standard library.
- kstrauser 1y agoIf I were a product decision maker, I’d be ok with that. It’d have to be a very unusual niche to make it worth the engineering effort to support customers who only run decades-old hardware. Employees: “We want to use new feature X.” Boss: “Sorry, but that isn’t available for our wealthy customers who are stuck on Eee PCs.” Nah.