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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by jcranmer on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:26PM (#22023770)
> For example, Chromium. Any BSD developer would know that attempting to upstream their port there is dead in the water. AFAICT, They Chromium devs only care about Win, Mac, Linux and nothing else. Likewise for Firefox, which is why the BSDs don't get official releases.

Firefox does maintain ports for the BSDs. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598511, an OpenBSD-only issue, was fixed less than a month ago.

The BSDs qualify as "Tier 3" in Mozilla's build terminology, which means that the onus is on external contributors to identify problems and propose fixes, as there is no continuous integration support for these architectures.

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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR by clarry on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:46AM (#22025837)
> The BSDs qualify as "Tier 3" in Mozilla's build terminology, which means that the onus is on external contributors to identify problems and propose fixes, as there is no continuous integration support for these architectures.

In other words, Firefox doesn't maintain the port for OpenBSD, OpenBSD developers do.

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