On Wednesday 21 October 2020, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> > [yves@home firefox]$ ./firefox
> > ./firefox: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.17' not found
> > (required by ./firefox)
> > ./firefox: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found
> > (required by ./firefox)
> >
> > CentOS 6 only goes up to glibc 2.12.
> 
> Basically that says that upstream no longer thinks that Firefox is
> runnable on RHEL-6/CentOS-6 anymore. 

That message was from Firefox 78.4 ESR downloaded from Mozilla. 
Obviously Red Hat does think that it's possible to run Firefox 78.3 ESR 
on RHEL 6, because they shipped it. They just didn't get the sound 
working properly.

But end of life is in 6 weeks, so perhaps nobody will bother fixing the 
problem.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille <y...@storm.ca>
GPG key 837A6134 at http://members.storm.ca/~yan/pgp.asc
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