1451801 - EME-free Firefox for GNU/Linux discontinued

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1404048

(Release Engineering :: Release Requests, defect)

Description

[David Hedlund]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

I visited https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ to download the latest version of the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)-free Firefox for GNU/Linux.


Actual results:

I didn't find it. The EME-free version for GNU/Linux has been discontinued after version 56.0 (https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/56.0/linux-x86_64-EME-free/).

This is the supported platforms and Firefox variants for version 56.0.1 and later:

Dir 	linux-i686/
Dir 	linux-x86_64/
Dir 	mac-EME-free/
Dir 	mac/
Dir 	win32-EME-free/
Dir 	win32/
Dir 	win64-EME-free/
Dir 	win64/


Expected results:

The development of the EME-free version of Firefox should continue.

Comment 1

[David Hedlund]

Arch GNU/Linux distributes an EME-free variant of Firefox: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-eme-free/

Comment 2

[David Hedlund]

The development of the EME-free variant for Firefox ESR discontinued after 52.0.2: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0.2/linux-x86_64-EME-free/

Comment 3

[David Hedlund]

(In reply to public from comment #2)
> The development of the EME-free variant for Firefox ESR discontinued after
> 52.0.2:
> https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.0.2/linux-x86_64-EME-free/

i686 discontinued as well after Firefox ESR 52.7.3: https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/52.7.3esr/

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

See bug 1404048, comment 0.

Comment 5

[David Hedlund]

Sorry, the last EME-free version is 57.0b3: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/57.0b3/

The EME was disabled after that:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404048#c3
> As of 57.0b4 this is fixed:
> https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/57.0b4/