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[Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Firefox is in no way limited to 64bits, it compiles and works on
32-bit just fine. The key to using it meaningfully would be to have it
work under the phone's display server and having an user interface
that's usable also with touch.

But technically speaking (not practically) there is no blocker in
running it in normal desktop browser mode provided the Mir enabled
GTK3 backend of Firefox is used. The default in Firefox is still GTK2
until at least Firefox 45, so there's some waiting to be done on that
side too.

-Timo

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Ward <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> so when we get the tablet that runs firefox thats because its 64bit so this
> means we cant do the same on the phone? i see people doing that already ...
> be good if we can run the same on the phone to fill the gaps of missing
> applications
>
> Wayne
>
> On 05/02/16 11:22, Stephen M. Webb wrote:
>>
>> On 16-02-05 03:29 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all!
>>>    A question for those working on the just announced M10 tablet: will we
>>> be able to run 32bit arm applications (that is, the same binaries we are
>>> producing for the phones) on it?
>>> As far as I understand, the CPU is capable of running both 64 and 32
>>> bits applications, and I presume that the base OS will be running at 64
>>> bits. But I guess that if the armhf version of the platform libs is
>>> installed, it will be able to run unmodified armhf apps?
>>
>> At the moment the Linux kernel is 64-bit to match the CPU but the
>> userspace runtime is effectively the same 32-bit armhf
>> runtime we use on other Ubuntu Touch devices.
>>
>> tl;dr you will be able to run the same 32bit arm applications on it.
>>
>
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