Firefox 5 with Windows 64 Bit Support Coming
Best news in a decade.
With the release of 64 Bit Adobe Flash Player, there are no more excuses not to develop a native 64 Bit web browser build.
Good news, the upcoming Firefox 5 will indeed offer a 64 Bit flavor on Windows.
In addition, Mozilla’s next generation web browser is also set to introduce the following improvements:
Account Manager
Simple Sharing UI
UI Animation
ETA: 2011.
What are the advantages? See the following post.
Source: Mozilla
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Of course no ETA yet. Let’s see a end-user ready, public release of Firefox 4 first!!!!
Looks like it’s coming in 2011.
they also said Fx 4 would come in 2010, now they say Fx 5 + Fx 6 + Fx 7 are going to come in 2011… it’s hard to believe :)
While FF5 will have 64-bit builds the nightlies already have them (although they’re not updated every night). http://nightly.mozilla.org/
“With the release of 64 Bit Adobe Flash Player, there are no more excuses not to develop a native 64 Bit web browser build.”
Indeed, next Opera (11.1) version will also have 64-bit build for Windows, so apparently it makes sense.
Is a 64-bit browser really that necessary? I mean, really!
What websites need more than 4GB of RAM? :)
Bill Gates “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” in the past :)
NO, that doesn’t follow.
Not unless 4 GB is as inadequate for the job as 640K.
What’s your next line going to be — we needed a new PC every 3 years in the 80’s and 90’s, so we need a PC just as badly every 3 years today?
No, because things mature. Sometimes they reach plateaus. For example, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Microsoft had/has to wrest those OSes from our cold, dead hands.
A PC bought in 2004 would still be quite serviceable today — maybe with a 1 GB RAM upgrade. I know; my wife has one. We’re talking 7 years old! The thing is still plenty fast. Pentium 4 hyperthreading, 1.5 GB RAM, 120 GB hard drive, DVD reader, etc.
It’s not just RAM :-)
http://www.favbrowser.com/firefox-32-bit-x86-vs-firefox-64-bit-x64/
http://www.favbrowser.com/internet-explorer-9-32-bit-x86-vs-ie9-64-bit-x64/
So a 64 bit web browser would still benefit me despite me being only on 3 GB of RAM. Cool. I barely reach 1 GB of RAM usage so it’s good to know that there are other reasons to go with a 64 bit web browser.
Yep, 64 bit FTW :-)
The 32 bit version is around 20% faster in the Peacekeeper benchmark