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I currently run Chrome v.7 dev-m, and Nightly 35.0a1 () both are 64b versions under Windows 7-64b with hex-core CPU running at 4.1Ghz, 16Gb DDR3 RAM, and a 2Gb nVidia GT610 video card I overclock from stock 810Mhz to 1020Mhz which provides excellent 1080p gaming at 50fps. To hit over 1,600,000k I’d have to have over a dozen tabs open. The moment I visit a link, the base foot print changes to just under 400,000k – depending on how many extensions are being used on that page? and for each tab I open it adds another 50,000k – 150,000k per tab. For me running Nightly 64b, and Chrome DEV-64b, Firefox runs just under 300,000k while Chrome where I have installed the same amount of extensions (15) as in Firefox runs the base program at just over 300,000k and each plug-in runs between 20,000k to just over 260,000k (Ad Block Plus) for a grand total of just over 1,600,000k. ? Firefox runs as a single operation, while Chrome runs each installed extension and plug-in as a separate process. Now You: What are your expections for a 64-bit Firefox version?

This is a preliminary timetable which may change depending on how the testing goes and if major bugs are discovered that may prevent the release in March 2015. Auto-updates are not provided yet though which means that users who are interested in testing these builds need to download them separately from a page Mozilla creates for that purpose. It is planned furthermore to released Aurora and Beta test builds as part of Mozilla's November 9th campaign (10 years of Firefox). The proposed version of Firefox for phase 1 is Firefox 37 Stable. Flash support is provided either via 64-bit Flash or Shumway, and add-on support is improved.

Phase 2: A universal installer that supports both 32-bit and 64-bit.

The majority of plugins and binary add-ons won't work in this phase.

64-bit builds are served from that moment on to users who opted-in.

Phase 1: A separate 64-bit installer is provided and users are informed about it on the browser's what's new page.

Mozilla plans to roll out the 64-bit in phases: In addition, development is listed as mostly complete and engineering work that needs to be completed resolves to testing, making sure the installer works and plugin compatibility work. According to the page, at least 50% of users who run Firefox on Windows use a 64-bit version of the operating system.

There you find listed reasons why Mozilla wants to make available a 64-bit build for Windows. If you look at Firefox's main competitors you will notice that Internet Explorer is being offered as a 64-bit version and that Google Chrome is already available as a 64-bit version as well.Ī recent update to the 64-bit Windows page on the Mozilla Wiki website suggests that the organization plans to release a 64-bit Firefox Stable version for the Windows operating system in the near future.