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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: a plea: please don't deprecate FF 3.6 yet
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:13:24AM +0100, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
> 2012/3/16 Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>:
> > I'm on ia64, and www/firefox doesn't build.
> > www/firefox36 is about the only full featured
> > browser that does build on ia64.
> 
> As far as I know not only ia64 is affected by the deprecation
> of Firefox 3.6. I know that PowerPC is no longer supported
> in newer versions of Firefox. I don't know the current status
> of Firefox on sparc64 but I assume that it currenty doesn't
> build.

I need to update this page:

http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/freebsd/ia64/browsers.html

The situation has probably become worse.

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
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