The stable, supported, mainstream version of Firefox on Windows is a 32-bit application. Even if you use 64-bit Windows, if you use Firefox, you’re using a 32-bit browser. The exception is if you’re ...

Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg last Friday quietly posted a thread over on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board titled “Turning off win64 builds.” By Wednesday, ...

Today, with the release of Firefox 43, almost a decade after the idea was first mooted, there is finally an official 64-bit build of Firefox for Windows. To download it, you’ll have to head over to ...

Mozilla now automatically delivers the 64-bit version of Firefox to Windows users with compatible hardware, the open-source developer said this week. (Firefox can be downloaded here.) “Users on 64-bit ...

Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day. After what he referred to as “significant ...

Mozilla has finally, finally introduced a 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows with the recent release of Firefox 43. There were already 64-bit versions for Mac and Linux. Windows users, however, ...

Mozilla engineering manager Benjamin Smedberg has asked developers to stop nightly builds for Firefox versions optimized to run on 64-bit versions of Windows. A developer thread posted on the Google ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Mozilla is backtracking on its decision to kill the 64-bit version of Firefox following heavy ...

Believe it or not, Firefox on Windows has been a 32-bit affair until now -- while Google and Microsoft made the leap to 64-bit web browsing a while back, Mozilla hasn't been quite so quick off the ...

Firefox 8 64-bit is 10-15% faster than its 32-bit brother, and with 64-bit versions of Flash and Java now available it's finally time to embrace 64-bit surfing. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...