Is there Firefox 64-bit?

[phexac]

Basically what the title says. There is already IE8 64-bit, and that works great. Was wondering if there also was FF. Or for that matter any other browsers. I would expect that, with most new PCs shipping with 3GB+ of memory, 64-bit windows software should be becoming more and more common. Once Windows 7 comes, I would expect far more 64-bit versions sold that 32-bit.

Anyway, back to original topic. Is there FF 64-bit, and are there any advantages drawbacks? Do all the plugins work on FF64 that work on FF32?

 

[vailr]

FF 64-bit is reported to become officially available whenever version 3.6 or 3.7 is out.
So: several months from now; maybe in time for the Oct. 22 Windows 7 release.
Although: there may be experimental interim x64 builds available on their FTP server:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/moz.../nightly/latest-trunk/

 

[lxskllr]

AFAIK, there's no 64bit Flash.

 

[Modelworks]

No reason for a 64 bit version other than to say it is 64 bit. If the browser ever starts using gigabytes of memory we have a problem

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
No reason for a 64 bit version other than to say it is 64 bit. If the browser ever starts using gigabytes of memory we have a problem

I don't know. What about browser based gaming, or maybe some other high end browser apps?

 

[akugami]

I can envision the browser evolving into a platform beyond just as a web browser. Not necessarily cloud computing but a lot of apps would be built in something like Java (or whatever language) that is loaded within the browser. This can be as simple as email and calendar apps to something more complex like spreadsheets and the like. Basically think Google Chrome OS. As lxskllr mentions, browser based gaming. I mean, there are FPS's that run within browsers.

 

[0roo0roo]

still waiting for multiprocess/threaded version
chrome..even ie do that already

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: akugami
I can envision the browser evolving into a platform beyond just as a web browser. Not necessarily cloud computing but a lot of apps would be built in something like Java (or whatever language) that is loaded within the browser. This can be as simple as email and calendar apps to something more complex like spreadsheets and the like. Basically think Google Chrome OS. As lxskllr mentions, browser based gaming. I mean, there are FPS's that run within browsers.

Flash and Java are applets, the browser is just displaying them.
However, HTML, as it continues to evolve (along with javascript) will be capable of flash like content on its own.

 

[Nothinman]

There is already IE8 64-bit, and that works great. Was wondering if there also was FF.

There's been 64-bit builds for Linux for years now and I believe there's unofficial builds for Windows, but nothing official so far.