Firefox 32 bit (x86) vs. Firefox 64 bit (x64)
Written by Vygantas Lipskas on November 30, 2008
If you are looking to download Firefox 64 bit, then this is the right place to start. But first, let’s check some benchmarks to see if 64bit Firefox has any performance advantages against Firefox 32bit.
3.0 (x86) vs 3.1 (x64)
Lower is better
Ubuntu 8.04 TLS on AMD Turion 64 1.8GHz
Lower is better
15% faster JPEG decoding on Windows x64 with IJG’s JPEG library
Lower is better
As you can see, 64 bit builds indeed has an advantage against 32 bit builds.
In case you would like to download older Firefox 3.1 or 3.0 64 bit releases, check this page
Otherwise, you might be interested in this: How To Build Windows x64 Build
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But x64 will only offer a half baked cookie withouth the Flash plugin, right ?
The main problem with the ff 3.1 x64 Windows build is, that you can’t use Flash! If this would be possible the x64 build would run on my pc (and if it’s possible like under linux please post how ;-) ).
Well you’re both kinda right, but…let me add that Firefox (Minefield 64) is waaaaay ahead in the park sitting on a bench waiting for Adobe to make flash 64!
I would also point out that the lack of flash64 is not a FF-only issue - it affects all browsers! You can’t do flash on IE64 either.
Worlds most misleading comparison comparing firefox 3 with 3.1.
OK IS THERE AN FIREFOX 64 BIT IF THERE IS PLEASE EMAIL ME A LINK TO DOWNLOAD I READ ALOT OF PAGES WHERE PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT IT AND COMPARING IT BUT I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE A SITE WHERE A DOWNLOAD IS AVAILABLE
http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/Download
Now that Sun has released a beta version of 64 bit Java, we can only hope that Adobe will follow with a 64 bit Flash. Adobe has an alpha for Linux, so let’s hope they’ll release one for Windows too.
Raggi, Adobe has released a 64 bit version of Flash.
@hooty: Have they release a 64 bit version for Windows?
Yup, had it out for quite a while.
I your first graph, you can’t compare a 32-bit build of 3.0.x and a 64-bit build of 3.1 and claim the advantage comes from the build. 3.1 is faster at js benchmarks because it’s got the new js engine, Tracemonkey.
The second test is more telling.
Yeah.. I really need to do this.. 3.0.7 started to irritate me with occasional freezing.
@raggi where is adobe for 64bit according to adobe it does not exist
F@ck adobeeee
64 bit Flash is only available for Linux.