Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

2018-02-03 Thread James Carlson via openindiana-discuss
On 02/01/2018 11:58 AM, Al Slater wrote: > On 25/01/18 18:57, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Of course, with the elimination of Netscape plugin support, there's little >> reason to still use a 32-bit version of Firefox. > > Apart from the fact that 32bit versions die before gobbling *all* of > your sy

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

2018-02-01 Thread Al Slater
On 25/01/18 18:57, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: >> Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of >> Firefox? > > I believe the most immediate item of concern is that Firefox now uses code > written in Rust, so you'll be limited to platfor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future: Rustc

2018-02-01 Thread Carsten Grzemba
On 01/26/18 10:41 AM, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Carsten Grzemba wrote: On 25.01.18 19:58, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of Firefox? I believe the most immed

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future: Rustc

2018-01-26 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Carsten Grzemba wrote: > > > On 25.01.18 19:58, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > > On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: > > > Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of > Firefox? > > > > I believe the most immediate item of concern is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future: Rustc

2018-01-26 Thread Carsten Grzemba
On 25.01.18 19:58, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: > > Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of > > Firefox? > > I believe the most immediate item of concern is that Firefox now uses code > written in Rust, so you'll be limited

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

2018-01-25 Thread Nikola M
On 01/25/18 07:57 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of Firefox? I believe the most immediate item of concern is that Firefox now uses code written in Rust, so you'll be limited to platforms that t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

2018-01-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 01/25/18 10:40 AM, russell wrote: > Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit version of > Firefox? I believe the most immediate item of concern is that Firefox now uses code written in Rust, so you'll be limited to platforms that the Rust compiler generates code for, and I d

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 32bit future

2018-01-25 Thread russell
Hi, I noticed last year Mozilla made the default Firefox installation for Windows to be Firefox 64bit, then my Linux distro on my work laptop also switched to Firefox 64bit. Are there any figures on Firefox 32bit v 64bit deployment? Is there any immediate danger of Mozilla retiring the 32bit