Browsers and 64 bit

[pcslookout]

When do you think we will be able to finally use a 64 bit browser by default? I know adobe is the one keeping us far behind with this unless you never use flash. Don't know of many people like this. Doesn't a lot of stuff require flash, not just youtube videos?

 

[Modelworks]

What would be the benefit of a 64 bit browser ?

 

[Nothinman]

When do you think we will be able to finally use a 64 bit browser by default?

Years ago? I've been using 64-bit Epiphany and FF on Linux for a while now.

What would be the benefit of a 64 bit browser ?

Plugins like Flash and Java could get a number of benefits from being 64-bit.

 

[Sureshot324]

On Linux you can use 64bit firefox with 32bit plugins. There is no benefit to this though. 64bit can give a slight performance advantage to some cpu bound applications, but for a browser it's not going to make any difference. At least until we see websites that require more than 2gb of ram 😛

 

[Nothinman]

At least until we see websites that require more than 2gb of ram

But it's 2G of VM, not physical memory so you'd end up hitting the limit before 2G of data was loaded. That and Java and Flash are both pigs so I wouldn't be surprised if people started hitting it. =)

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

At least until we see websites that require more than 2gb of ram

But it's 2G of VM, not physical memory so you'd end up hitting the limit before 2G of data was loaded. That and Java and Flash are both pigs so I wouldn't be surprised if people started hitting it. =)

Yeah java and flash suck. If I didn't need to install them I wouldn't.