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Mozilla flips, will let 64-bit Firefox live

news article released on: 25 December, 2012

Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg announced that the company was killing off 64-bit nightly builds of the popular Firefox browser. At the time, the engineer said there was "significant negative feedback," but it appears that has been revised as Mozilla is re-instating the builds. A new post, called 'Update on turning off 64-bit Windows builds,' the engineer ...

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#1 25 Dec 2012 @ 14:49
Is Mozilla that out of touch? I really liked older version of Firefox, but really can't stand the newer updated style of the browser they chose in newer versions. To hear a company say they won't support 64-bit really makes me think they are even more out of touch. What will they do now, pull 32-bit to only support 16-bit, and then 8-bit only. This is ludicrous if Mozilla continues down this path.

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#2 25 Dec 2012 @ 16:19
"can kill a computer that is trying to keep hundreds of tabs open."

Oh no! I wouldn't be able to have my USUAL hundreds of sites opened at once??? ;-)
#3 25 Dec 2012 @ 16:57
Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
"can kill a computer that is trying to keep hundreds of tabs open."

Oh no! I wouldn't be able to have my USUAL hundreds of sites opened at once??? ;-)
In response to devs (the people who test nightlies), not for average Internet user.

#4 25 Dec 2012 @ 17:11
Originally posted by DVDBack23:
Originally posted by xnonsuchx:
"can kill a computer that is trying to keep hundreds of tabs open."

Oh no! I wouldn't be able to have my USUAL hundreds of sites opened at once??? ;-)
In response to devs (the people who test nightlies), not for average Internet user.
Ya i can't remember ever getting more then 15 windows/tabs opened at once, after that I find i'll trash too much looking for what I might need, after then i start closing them all and then restart for the windows i really need at the time.

While opening 100's windows/tabs might be a valid test for stress/perf it doesn't seem practical for ordinary use cases, again sure sounds like Mozilla is seriously out of touch of reality?

I wonder where other browsers would tip over, 20, 50, 100 windows/tabs...


#5 25 Dec 2012 @ 18:59
I've got about 45 tabs open right now, most of them pinned. I'll let you know when I get to 100.
#6 25 Dec 2012 @ 20:51
welcome back?
#7 26 Dec 2012 @ 9:27
Originally posted by hikaricor:
I've got about 45 tabs open right now, most of them pinned. I'll let you know when I get to 100.
jaja, me too.

Forza Juve!!
#8 26 Dec 2012 @ 14:16
Who cares...............www.waterfoxproject.org


Just "Better"
#9 05 Feb 2013 @ 20:27
Mozilla77 Unverified new user
Mozilla is the most fu... up Internet shercher I ever have becasuse 4 times this and last year brok in my laptop. in first time work completly right than donn't want to opend I don't know what the .... is worng with this thing. I reallly like it firstly but now I think is pice of ... swer down who ... up this program was such good program now is just getting werst and werst. :(

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