Bug ID 1056953
Summary Firefox version is wrong
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware All
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Major
Priority P5 - None
Component Firefox
Assignee bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com
Reporter chris@twoten.is
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
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Tumbleweed is a rolling release, bringing latest versions of *all* software
included. Except now Firefox, because (according to Reddit) i586. I have some
fairly old computers, including Atom netbooks; none of them are i586 only.

I had a Via C3 in an MPD system, it died of old age last year. If you still had
a running system which was i586, it must be because it's performing a specific
service - so why on earth would you be running a rolling distro on it? Sure
you'd run a long term distro.

Given Firefox ESR with i586 support is gone in 8 months anyway, holding onto to
i586 support makes little sense. There seems 2 ways forward; either Firefox
stops being the default browser (and is then available as the latest version
for those who want it), or i586 support is dropped.

Recommendation: that the Tumbleweed default drops i586 support.

Genuinely interested to hear reasons why a rolling distro would support an EoL
CPU architecture - and is support is retained, what happens in June 2018.


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