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Adobe Flash 64 bit 10.1!!!

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I been able to get Opera to use way over 1.5 GB of ram and I was so happy! Mainly because it still did not slow down my system! Sadly Firefox does for some odd reason I think it is mainly do to cpu usage but not sure. Doesn't matter I can't leave Firefox. Oh how bad I want to go to Opera but can't. Guess my only solution is to either use both or deal with the stuff Opera does not have. I can't do the second option though. If I didn't know what I was missing out on maybe but otherwise no. It is to late now. God dawn you add ons! Why did I ever have to discover them! Firefox forever even if it means using another browser along side it! Nothing wrong with using more than one browser is there ?
 
I'm pretty sure I've seen benchmarks where 64 bit firefox was around 25% faster than 32 bit firefox in many circumstances.

Which likely affect <1% of users. Benchmarks are good for finding regressions, but are largely useless for simulating real-world usage patterns. Why do I care if a JavaScript app runs 10,000 times in 10sec? As long as the web page renders quickly and the app works I couldn't care less.
 
Which likely affect <1% of users. Benchmarks are good for finding regressions, but are largely useless for simulating real-world usage patterns. Why do I care if a JavaScript app runs 10,000 times in 10sec? As long as the web page renders quickly and the app works I couldn't care less.
If you were the type of person that browsed with a ton of tabs open, you probably would actually notice a nice boost from a 64 bit browser.

I'm actually surprised that Mozilla doesn't list the 64 bit Firefox builds on their main download page.
 
If you were the type of person that browsed with a ton of tabs open, you probably would actually notice a nice boost from a 64 bit browser.

I'm actually surprised that Mozilla doesn't list the 64 bit Firefox builds on their main download page.

I don't see any reason why a lot of tabs equates to better performance. Unless you somehow manage to shatter the 2GB user space barrier in which a program would crash in a non PAE 32-bit environment, I don't see any reason why 64-bit would help with a lot of tabs open.

-Kevin
 
If you were the type of person that browsed with a ton of tabs open, you probably would actually notice a nice boost from a 64 bit browser.

I'm actually surprised that Mozilla doesn't list the 64 bit Firefox builds on their main download page.

So you've had your browser use >2G of VM? I know I sure haven't and I do browse with a lot of tabs. And with browsers moving to a process-per-tab model it matters even less since each tab will have it's own VM.
 
So you've had your browser use >2G of VM? I know I sure haven't and I do browse with a lot of tabs. And with browsers moving to a process-per-tab model it matters even less since each tab will have it's own VM.

I couldn't imagine how many tabs it would take to use >2GB. Just yesterday I had 19 tabs open in Opera (64bit), with well over 100 closed tabs, in a session that was open more than 24 hours, and it was only using ~700MB total. I'm sure it's possible, I just can't imagine it.

FWIW, I do have 64-bit Flash installed now, and it's not any better than the 32-bit version was.
 
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