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Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds

Posted by timothy on from the lending-your-closed-source-a-hand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day. After what he referred to as 'significant negative feedback,' Smedberg has announced he has reviewed that feedback, consulted with his release engineering team, and has decided on a modification to the original plan: Firefox 64-bit for Windows may still never be released, but nightly builds will live another day."

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  1. Re:64-bit free software by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I'd like to see Mozilla bring back is an un-bloated browser.

  2. Re:64-bit? Bah by niftymitch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That means Firefox will still be limited to 4 PiB, which I'm sure it'll be reaching by the release of Firefox 12,458 next year. We need a 128-bit version.

    Naw... it is two things. Cleaner code and the lack of 32bit library cruft in a system. However plugins like flash and even Java32-.vs.-Java64 make me think that well flash is crud and Java not as portable as it should/could be.

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