Windows 7 - Firefox 8 for Windows x64: Has 64-bit browsing finally come of age?

A Guy · 07-21-2011

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Over the last couple of weeks, Mozilla has finally stepped up its 64-bit testing process. There are now five slaves dedicated to building Firefox for Windows x64, which means that from Firefox 8 and onwards, you’ll be able to pick up 64-bit builds that are functionally identical to its 32-bit cousins but operating in native 64-bit CPU and memory space.

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Maguscreed · 07-21-2011

Good to know even if it's a bit late.

arkhi · 07-22-2011

Wait what? Aren't we just in Firefox 5 right now? I'm not a Firefox fan (anymore) so i'm not updated with this.

yowanvista · 07-22-2011

The 64-bit build was supposed to come with the release of FF5 but they kept delaying it

Mercurial · 07-22-2011

great! more memory to hog

Teerex · 07-22-2011

x64 Nightlies are pretty stable IMHO, and very usable.

severedsolo · 07-22-2011

Within theory great news. But FF4 (and 5) has some memory leak issues. Not sure I want it to be able to leak into all of my available RAM to be honest.

SlasherIT · 07-22-2011

Still waiting for Google Chrome 64-bit

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Klaw117 · 07-22-2011

I'm still going to use the Nightly x64 build when this comes out. The Nightly build works perfectly fine, even though it's theoretically supposed to be less stable.

SlasherIT · 07-23-2011

Same as Chrome dev is supposed to be less stable than the Stable version, except the fact that Chrome dev is pretty stable.