Firefox 5 with Windows 64 Bit Support Coming

By | February 7, 2011


Firefox 5 with Windows 64 Bit Support ComingBest news in a decade.

With the release of 64 Bit Adobe Flash Player, there are no more excuses not to develop a native 64 Bit web browser build.

Good news, the upcoming Firefox 5 will indeed offer a 64 Bit flavor on Windows.

In addition, Mozilla’s next generation web browser is also set to introduce the following improvements:

Account Manager
Simple Sharing UI
UI Animation

ETA: 2011.

What are the advantages? See the following post.

Source: Mozilla


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Vygantas is a former web designer whose projects are used by companies such as AMD, NVIDIA and departed Westood Studios. Being passionate about software, Vygantas began his journalism career back in 2007 when he founded FavBrowser.com. Having said that, he is also an adrenaline junkie who enjoys good books, fitness activities and Forex trading.

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  1. sarjoor says:

    Of course no ETA yet. Let’s see a end-user ready, public release of Firefox 4 first!!!!

  2. Shane Bundy says:

    While FF5 will have 64-bit builds the nightlies already have them (although they’re not updated every night). http://nightly.mozilla.org/

  3. mr.lutze says:

    “With the release of 64 Bit Adobe Flash Player, there are no more excuses not to develop a native 64 Bit web browser build.”
    Indeed, next Opera (11.1) version will also have 64-bit build for Windows, so apparently it makes sense.

  4. Matthew says:

    Is a 64-bit browser really that necessary? I mean, really!
    What websites need more than 4GB of RAM? :)