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Firefox Is Going 64-Bit: What You Need To Know
An anonymous reader writes "Firefox product manager Asa Dotzler determined that figuring out the 64-bit confusion surrounding Firefox it will be 'near the top' of his to-do list this summer and fall. One could conclude that Mozilla has no idea at this point what people are expecting from a 64-bit version of Firefox, so Dotzler is asking for some feedback. More speed? More security? What about plug-in availability? All of the above, please."
Then why make a 64 bit version at all? If the company has no idea what people expect, then they don't need to be messing with it in first place.
Hurray! With 64 bits, Firefox might be able to address all the memory it uses...
-- IANAL, this isn't legal advice, and definitely isn't legal advice for you. Also, Squee!
64-bit Firefox: Now with 192 gigabytes of memory leaks!
Firefox 64bit - now capable of completely glooping 2 exbibytes! At current rate of leaking, this means you now only need to restart one a day! (Warning, depending on speed of swap device, Firefox 64bit may take more than a day to restart.)
Red to red, black to black. Switch it on, but stand well back.
After playing with FF4 for a couple of weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed Chrome. Chrome still needs a few features, but all in all, it outperforms FireFox hands down.
After playing with Chrome for a couple of weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed FF5. FF5 has all the features I need and many of those are implemented far better than Chrome, but all in all, it outperforms Chrome hands down.
Fixed that for you.
Me too, me too!
After playing with FF5 for a couple weeks, I finally grew tired of it and installed lynx. Lynx has all the features I need and many of those are implemented far better than Chrome, but all in all, it outperforms FF5 hands down.
Then why make a 64 bit version at all?
Maybe they need an excuse to change the version to 6.4?
they truly needed that, because soon enough they'll run out of 32 bit integers they use for version numbering.
You can't handle the truth.
The truth is the probably have integrated the version number as an integer all over the place, and they are desperate to switch to 64 bit before the version number hits the 32 bit integer limit later in the year.