You're quite right about SSE support being removed in ESR 52.0. For completeness, we also no longer support OS X 10.6 - 10.8, and Linux using GTK less than v3.4.
Cheers, Nick Thomas Mozilla Release Engineering On 15 June 2017 at 02:39, Nick Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 June 2017 at 21:04, Ritu Kothari <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:49 AM, Harrison Turley < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> With the planned released of FF ESR 52.2.0 today (6/13/17), > >> I was curious if the 45.9.0 branch will automatically update > >> with its end of life or if end users will need to install the > >> ESR 52 branch to receive further updates. > > > > Firefox ESR45.9.0 users will be offered automatic updates > > to Firefox ESR52.2.0. > > For completeness, you should add > > "... except for those people still running machines with Pentium 3 or > AMD Athlon XP CPUs - these CPUs lack support for SSE2 instructions, > and Mozilla has decided to stop building Firefox for the Windows > operating system on such machines, so 45.9.0ESR is the last build that > will ever be released for such hardware running Windows. Note that > Firefox still works perfectly well when the hardware does not provide > SSE2 instructions, but you'll have to either build Firefox yourself > using a suitable compiler (and set the build options suitably) or > switch to a Linux distribution that builds Firefox without the need > for SSE2 (most still do so)." > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/your-hardware-no-longer-supported > http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=2953859 > > This seems to be primarily a Windows thing - apparently, Windows 7 is > the last Windows version to run on CPUs lacking SSE2 support. > > PS: Yes, I know I'm the only person left on the planet with an "Athlon > XP inside" machine in a cupboard :) .... A 2GHz single-core 32bit CPU > with 2GB of RAM still works well for quite a few applications ... > > Cheers > Nick Boyce > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit https://mail.mozilla.org/ > listinfo/enterprise or send an email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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