Bug 1056953

Summary: Firefox version is wrong
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed Reporter: Chris Puttick <chris>
Component: FirefoxAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: astieger
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Description Chris Puttick 2017-09-02 08:02:28 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Andreas Stieger 2017-09-04 08:19:17 UTC 
Discuss on mailing list.
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-08/msg00333.html

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1053314 ***