Mozilla is FINALLY pulling the plug on 32-bit Firefox builds for Linux, a decade after Google Chrome did the same. Why now?

So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising, that one major Linux distro is looking to end support for 32-bit processors.

Firefox 144 will be the last for 32-bit Linux – and when Firefox ESR 140 expires next year, older systems will be completely ...

Seven years ago, Linus "="" support="" from="" the="" linux="" kernel"="">, dismissing it with "good riddance." While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux's mainstream. Gradually, ...

Firefox 144, due to be released on October 14, 2025, will be the final version for 32-bit Linux. Firefox 145, scheduled for ...

AMD and Intel released the first 64-bit CPUs for consumers back in 2003 and 2004. Now, more than a decade later, Linux distributions are looking at winding down support for 32-bit hardware. Google ...

Arch Linux is just the first to stop offering a 32-bit (or i686) version; expect other mainstream Linux desktop distributions to follow suit.

Google released Chrome 47 this week and announced that it will end Chrome support for older, 32-bit Linux distributions early next year.

Microsoft ended support for the Chromium-based Edge at the start of 2023. In July 2023, Mozilla said Firefox 115 ESR would ...

Linux distros are dropping 32-bit support left and right The Manjaro team, another Linux distro, is scheduled to drop support for 32-bit architectures altogether by the end of November 2017.

The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course ...