It looks like this has been in the works for awhile and Mozilla had intended for Firefox to detect SSE2 support in the installer and in the automatic updates. Of course, Ubuntu is skipping both of those.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308167 It's urgent that this gets fixed. The way things are right now, if people do a normal upgrade to 16.04, they can end up with a broken system. ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #1308167 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308167 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1697800 Title: [regression] firefox dies with SIGILL on machines without SSE2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1697800/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
