Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
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Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
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Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#2It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too.
You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo?
OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support?
EDIT:
Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (I don't even know what it's called any more!) didn't bother to fact-check, and they're referring to 64-bit native builds of Firefox.
EDIT2:
So I'm really being downvoted because the original story got it wrong? I guess that's one way to take out your anger on inaccurate writeups...
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#3To be able to support this, they're going to need to do some major overhaul of how add-on versioning works. As a Add-On developer (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/font-finder/), I shudder at the thought of 10,000 different addons needing to keep having their support version incremented w/ each upcoming release.
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#4It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too. You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo? OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support? EDIT: Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (…
>> You're kidding, right?
Nope, they're just misinformed; they read the roadmap incorrectly. What the Firefox devs mean is a 64-bit version of Firefox (i.e. an x64 process). Right now Firefox runs perfectly on both Windows 7 and 64-bit versions of Windows.
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#5It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too. You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo? OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support? EDIT: Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (…
They're not talking about "Windows 7 64-bit operating system", they're talking about "64-bit Firefox" (running on Windows 7 64-bit). One of the biggest slowdowns for this hasn't been FF's ability to run in 64-bit, but plugins (e.g. Flash) not having a 64-bit version for Windows.
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#6It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too. You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo? OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support? EDIT: Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (…
Chrome doesn’t run in 64bit mode either on Windows or OS X.
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#7Great, now I'm going to need to learn a bunch of new CSS selectors.
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#8Isn't the development cycle a bit too fast. 4 major versions in a single year.
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#9It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too. You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo? OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support? EDIT: Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (…
Author here.
There are 64-bit nightly builds of FF4, but _only_ nightlies: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...
This suggests that there won't be an official 64-bit build of Firefox 4 -- we'll have to wait for Firefox 5.
As some people comment below me, only some parts of it are working in the 64-bit space (and most notably, the Flash 64-bit plug-in is still beta/alpha.)
Re: Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 to be released before the end of 2011
#10It looks like Windows 7 64-bit will be officially supported with FF5, too. You're kidding, right? Do they REALLY not support the fastest growing OS version + platform combo? OEMs are finally paying attention to 64-bit computing, and Windows 7 has been replacing Vista like wildfire.... and FF is still two releases away from official Windows 7 64-bit support? EDIT: Oops. Seems stupid Aol/Weblogs/Switched/DowloadSquad (…
>> You're kidding, right? Nope, they're just misinformed; they read the roadmap incorrectly. What the Firefox devs mean is a 64-bit version of Firefox (i.e. an x64 process). Right now Firefox runs perfectly on both Windows 7 and 64-bit versions of Windows.
There are 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Firefox. The 64-bit builds only work on 64-bit machines -- and the 32-bit builds work on both 32- and 64-bit machines.