Comments on: Firefox 32 bit (x86) vs. Firefox 64 bit (x64)

By: G-Man

G-Man — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:45:28 +0000

Ive recently installed win7×64 Pro and im simply blown away by the speed of IEx64…sure the flash thing is a pain (and if i *really* want to see that flash advert i can copyu the url into IEx32 or FFx32), but for every-day browsing of the footy scores, forums etc the increase in speed is simply mind blowing….not imagined in any way whatsoever…i would guess in the region of 50% of the time to load a page in IEx64 over IEx32 (using bbc footy page as an example)…i have always been a FF fan and came here trying to find out about FFx64…i will download and play…have a good day :)

By: KP

KP — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:45:45 +0000

lol. Caps lock OFF, my friend. A bit of punctuation might be useful also.

By: Geek Prime

Geek Prime — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:57:48 +0000

Why all the yelling?
Oh wait – must be on an old mainframe keyboard. Got a bit of bad news for ya – 8 bit processors don’t run 64-bit software.

By: KP

KP — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:49:39 +0000

So what’s the verdict, people? Have just installed Win 7 x64 (mainly to get more than 3GB RAM operational)… is FF x64 worth it or not?? I can’t pick it out from all these differing opinions! Someone who knows what they’re talking about – FF for Win x86 or x64? Mainly I’m concerned with speed, tho’ no Flash is not great. But performance? We’re on a fairly slow broadband connection so speed is all-important…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:40:20 +0000

He won’t die if he just knows that 64 bit doesn’t support flash… that’s an easy way to tell.

By: cookies

cookies — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:57:42 +0000

and it’s also done nothing for you either….

By: cookies

cookies — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:55:49 +0000

They are measured in milliseconds and the differences are very small. So, No, sorry there is no practical advantages to running a 64 bit browser. Only artificial, imagined ones. Tie anyone to a chair and tell him they will die if they can’t inform you of which browser is which, and get it right 5 times in a row, will die nearly every time. It’s useless. 64 bit is for accessing large amonts of memory. Let’s say you are editing gigantic videos and want to quickly copy and paste sections. THEN, and only then is it useful when used with apps like that. Unless you have a browser application that gobbles up say 8 GB of ram and you only have 3GB, it’s worthless. In the future, it may be needed for the browsers. Figure 10 years, 2021. And then again, maybe not. I certainly don’t care if it’s 1% faster. Not enough to run into the dreaded incompatibility issues…. 32bit browsers for me.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 23:20:34 +0000

Yeah, its 3rd party, in the sense that its not made by Microsoft. And according to CNET, “An estimated 96 percent of the Web population has Flash installed.” That, I believe, makes it standard.

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:41:17 +0000

Shut the fuck up, it would be wrong to categorize Adobe Flash as “3rd-Part” since it is almost a web standard.

I read this stupid comment off of Google and had to say something, god damn you are an ill-informed jack ass.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:16:23 +0000

Going to and building websites that REQUIRE a 3rd party plugin to actually function, is just plain dumb.