235621 - Mozilla/Firefox installer filename should be i586, not i686

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040221 Firefox/0.8.0+ (marcoos)

The pages: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/sysreq.html and
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/system-requirements.html suggest that
the minimum processor for Mozilla and Firefox is Intel Pentium 233 MHz.
This processor is identified in Linux as "i586".

But... the links to the builds are like this one:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.6/mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.6-installer.tar.gz

The links suggest that Mozilla needs i686 (which is Pentium II or
newer&compatible). Moreover, about:buildconfig says that the target platform is
i686-pc-linux-gnu.

It seems that Mozilla won't run on i586 (even though Mozilla.org website says so).

Probably the sys. req. pages for Mozilla and Firefox should be updated.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL mentioned in summary


Actual Results:  
1. See "Pentium 233 Mhz" as the minimum AND the link to an i686 build.

Expected Results:  
1. See "Pentium II" as the minimum OR a link to an i586 build.

Comment 1

[timeless]

nope. we just have a screwy way of naming binaries. i believe the binaries will
actually run on 486s, but i don't have any handy.

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

The Linux filenames have been changed to firefox-1.0.installer.tar.gz and
firefox-1.0.tar.gz. -> WFM.

Comment 3

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

--> Websites :: www.mozilla.com so timeless can close out Firefox :: Product Site.

Comment 4

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

v.