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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    Discussion.
    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    Probably
    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    Explain that!
    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    Rubbish!
    Er, can we move this thread to general so that I can take the P out of pg's social skills and explain what a discussion is?

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  • petergriffin
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    What are the other benefits?
    You're not far from the truth and I agree in many case it's just a waste of resources. but the there could be some functionalities in the 64bit kernel (any OS) that you might not get in 32 bit mode (I can't think of any for Windows at the moment).

    As FF is open source you might potentially build it yourself from sources and see if it makes any difference.

    The only reason Mozilla has not released it for Win64 yet is because, as pointed out, it might not work well with Java and Flash 64 bit. As they are slowly going to be phased out, they might develop plugins only for the 64 bit platform.

    In my experience on Windows, yes it is a waste of resource, but that's because it is from the daily build and deliberately broken.

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  • VectraMan
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    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    Rubbish!
    What are the other benefits?

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  • petergriffin
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    The only benefit of a 64-bit app is it can access >4GB of RAM
    Rubbish!

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  • VectraMan
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    Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
    Explain that!
    The only benefit of a 64-bit app is it can access >4GB of RAM, which a browser isn't likely to need. But in doing that every pointer has to be 64-bit, instead of 32, and therefore uses twice as much memory.

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  • petergriffin
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    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    It's pointless.
    Probably.
    Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
    If it makes any difference at all it'll be to use more memory than the 32-bit version.
    Explain that!

    In any case you are free to compile it from sources. I actually was thinking of doing so, probably using mingw or cygwin.

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  • VectraMan
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    It's pointless. If it makes any difference at all it'll be to use more memory than the 32-bit version.

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  • darrylmg
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    Still need 32bit java.

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  • petergriffin
    started a topic Firefox 64bit for Windows

    Firefox 64bit for Windows

    I am not sure if this has been discussed before but here you go:
    Index of /pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk

    Select the "win64-x86_64.installer.exe" to install or "win64-x86_64.zip" just to extract and go.

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