# Why firefox 87 is no longer supported?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [July 20, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468 "2022-07-20T21:29:11Z")
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### Author: ![Andronachi\_Marian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andronachi_marian/32/267769_2.png) [@Andronachi\_Marian](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andronachi_Marian)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 9:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468/1 "2022-07-20T21:29:11Z")

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What others can do and this not?

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### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2022, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468/2 "2022-07-20T21:49:30Z")

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This will probably help:

> [@Text editor is not working in Firefox 78?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/text-editor-is-not-working-in-firefox-78/231513/19):
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> > [@Text editor is not working in Firefox 78?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/text-editor-is-not-working-in-firefox-78/231513/16):
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> > My guess here @david is that this may be related to the undo support?
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> Yeah, via [MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/execCommand), Firefox \< 89 had bugs with text manipulation:
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> > Before Firefox 89, manipulating the content of `<input>` and `<textarea>` elements using `Document.execCommand()` commands requires workarounds (see [bug 1220696](https://bugzil.la/1220696)).

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### Author: ![Andronachi\_Marian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andronachi_marian/32/267769_2.png) [@Andronachi\_Marian](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andronachi_Marian)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 8:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468/3 "2022-07-21T20:42:32Z")

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So for what I see the execCommand is deprecated.  
I doubt it is not a better solution.  
For that years that was not problem on many text editors and this is the only platform that is not working…

And for that to not able to login and write a simple text is weird.

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### Author: ![Stephen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/stephen/32/95011_2.png) [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 9:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468/4 "2022-07-21T21:37:55Z")

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Firefox 87 is about 16 months old at this point. Are there any devices in particular which are stuck on this version?

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### Author: ![Benjamin\_D](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/benjamin_d/32/277831_2.png) [@Benjamin\_D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Benjamin_D)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468/5 "2022-07-21T22:20:11Z")

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off topic a bit but some software used in a nursing home I tend to still works only on IE… so you can imagine the kind of hardware/OS I find in public schools for children with SEND … 😭

So a 16m old Firefox… yeah, I can’t say I’m surprised, but could it be upgraded? highly probable. Drench the IT department with coffee, bury the treasurer under chocolate, and who knows…

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-firefox-87-is-no-longer-supported/233468/6 "2022-08-20T22:20:21Z")

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