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Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by yreg on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:11PM (#45173321)
They might not be concerned, but websites using new standards will slowly start to break for them.
Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by ryan-ca on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:20PM (#45173421)
Polyfills are standard for websites to be compatible with older browsers.
Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:52PM (#45173815)
It 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.

Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by ryan-ca on Saturday September 20, 2025 @04:03PM (#45316872)
Not applicable, though javascript is a programming language not a standard library.
Re:Firefox 32-bit Linux Support to End in 2026 by kstrauser on Monday September 08, 2025 @04:51PM (#45173805)
If 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.