Mozilla Introduces 64-bit Flavor
Back in April, Mozilla has started releasing 64 bit Firefox builds for Linux and Mac OSX operating systems.
Recently however, company has announced the availability of 64 bit nightly Firefox 4 builds for Windows as well.
If you are eager to try it out, head over to the following page and download latest release.
Keep in mind that 64 bit Java and Flash plugins have not reached final status yet.
Thanks to Shane Bundy for the news tip.
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This is good news!! Move all to 64 Bit and most of the WinSxS files can be removed. I would love to have pure 64 bit WIndows OS with out the SysWOW64.
I think, flash 10.1 will have 64 bit support.
Seems like java for 64 bit is already there http://java.com/en/download/faq/java_win64bit.xml
I don’t have Java installed in my PC for years.
Flash for Linux has had 64bit support for over a year without any serious problems. :-P
It’s still crap in itself though.
Cool. :)
Does it give anything? Is it faster than 32bit version?
Yes, it is.
See this link.
I tested Peacekeeper on win7 a few days ago and the 64bit build was significantly slower. I don’t have the figure, but by around 25%. I presumed this was a teething issue, but perhaps it’s my setup…
Incidentally, some runtime library is needed as well, or you get a dll-not-found error.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=bd512d9e-43c8-4655-81bf-9350143d5867
Not only faster, it also allows you to not have to have any 32-bit compatibility libraries, which takes up a ton of space.