No Firefox 64 Bit

No Firefox 4 64 Bit for You

I'm buying a new desktop soon (Windows), should I bother with 64 Bit?

 

not if u use flash often, or other 32bit only plugins, thats why i am still sticking with the 32bit version.

 

Daveski, I think you're a little bit confused. You can run 32bit apps (such as browsers) on 64bit Windows, like many millions of people do.

The reason 64bit browsing is not popular is because the 32bit plugins such as flash are holding them back. However, that shouldn't prevent you from upgrading to a 64bit Operating System.

Just FYI, there ARE 64bit versions of firefox 4 right now, though they are the alpha versions: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

 

That's an understatement dude! Thanks for the info though, I will have to give this some thought.

 

Will You Tube & Google Earth work well in 64 bit?

 

Are there any practical advantages to running a 64 bit browser at this point? I'm not aware of any.

 

I had trouble with flash in 64 bit Ubuntu switched to 32 bit and I was fine. I don't know why flash doesn't work as well in 64 bit.

 

Only if they don't require flash....

 

Just use a 32bit browser (like you do now) for your daily browsing on your new 64bit desktop, there will be 0 difference to what you have now.

 

Practical, I can't think of any. Security-wise, possibly, although lately here at Wilders we're all learning that 64bit doesn't mean a thing as far as malware is concerned. We've got rootkits and things blasting right past the so called 64 bit security, and security vendors either lagging behind or refusing to support 64 bit. Fun times, right?

 

not really, although if u search around some people have tested that the 64bit version of firefox does have some speed increases over the 32bit version, but the lack of other features that u get with using a 32bit browser isnt really worth the slight speed increase and possible security improvement, although i dont know about the security improvements for sure.

 

OK, so I can just download Chrome/Iron or Firefox as normal & they will work fine, but not maybe as fast as a dedicated 64 bit browser?

Sorry if I seem a bit dim about this, but I don't want to shell out a lot of spondoolies for a computer that I will have difficulty using.

 

Precisely, just because the application isn't 64bit doesn't mean you can't use it on 64bit Windows. It performs the same way as if you were using a 32bit OS.

 

ye, the only time its really necessary to have a full 64bit application is with like security software or other software that works deeply rooted in ur system

 

OK, thanks for the info.

 

I think that this is what was confusing me because I knew you had to use a 64bit MSE version on a 64bit OS. I assumed (wrongly) that I would need to do that with other apps.

 

Windows 7: 32 bit or 64 bit

 

Cheers MrBrian.