4d ago

Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 – Future Releases

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I actually would like to see how many people were actually using the 32 bit version of Firefox in 2025 can't be a lot
- I did sometimes
I hate how people are cheering this on. 32bit has its place and linux has always been a sanctuary for legacy hardware.
- 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.
This is good. I know distros are antsy to drop it, but it's the legacy apps that need to come around too. I think steam is one of the worst offenders
- My suspicion is that Steam intentionally does this to ensure you're compatible with all their old 32-bit games.
- Hopefully this forces their hand
Good choice. Like stopping to make VHS while the CD is around.
With linux ditching 32bit, it was enviable things like this are to follow
- Where is this coming from?
  Linux isn't ditching it. A few distros stopped supporting it.
  
  Linux kernel dropped i368, i468 and a few i568 architectures, and i redid some investigations. I was wrong sorry. I thought pendium d was a cpu line after the pentium 4 line, and that was the turning point, but its the original pentium line that gets ditched. My mistake ^^
  
  Most serious distros are stopping their support for 32-bit... Not a few - the most prominent, which most of the others are build from.
  https://umatechnology.org/linux-distros-to-ditch-32-bit-support/

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