0veR Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 Mozilla is building different flavors of the next iteration of its open source browser, offering both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) builds for testing. At the end of the past week, Mozilla’s Armen Zambrano Gasparnian revealed that the company was producing the 64-bit builds of Firefox 4.0 for Windows. At this point in time, early adopters can download a very early pre-Beta 2 release of Firefox 4.0, in 32-bit (x86) as well as 64-bit (x64) versions.“I had to switch to Visual Studio 2008 since in VS2010 we don't jemalloc support. I still have to test that the compiler switch won't cause any regression to anybody who has a build built off VS2010. The following build has: been built with MSVC9 (VS2008); Windows 7 SDK; has no update; it now has jemalloc; it still does not have PGO. To note, I have tested the build on win7 64-bit build and has worked as expected,” Gasparnian stated.I first told you about the fact that Mozilla was cooking an official 64-bit variant of Firefox back in May 2010. Since then the open source browser vendor has made some progress, and is currently offering nightly builds of x64 and x86 Firefox 4.0 pre-Beta. At this point in time, nightly builds are all that testers can hope for, but Gasparnian is hard at work focused on pushing the release forward. Still, the efforts around x64 Firefox 4.0 are a tad limited, with just a single machine used for testing, and Mozilla performing approximately a test per day.The past week Mozilla indicated that Firefox 4.0 could hit the Beta 2 development milestone as early as this week. An official release date hasn’t been confirmed at this point in time, and is unclear whether end users will be getting a fully fledge Beta 2 of 64-bit Firefox 4.0, or if the browser vendor will continue to focus on 32-bit. Source: Softpedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oZ. Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 good news for 64 bits users! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Owl Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 We still need Flash 64-bit (x64) though for a 64-bit browser. According to Adobe just four days ago:Will Flash Player come in a 64-bit version soon?We are actively working on the release of a native 64-bit Flash Player for the desktop, and we will provide native support for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux 64-bit platforms in an upcoming major release of Flash Player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobrPatty Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 We still need Flash 64-bit (x64) though for a 64-bit browser. According to Adobe just four days ago:Will Flash Player come in a 64-bit version soon?We are actively working on the release of a native 64-bit Flash Player for the desktop, and we will provide native support for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux 64-bit platforms in an upcoming major release of Flash Player.Can't wait for a x64 version of Flash Player. As long as x64 browsers have been out seems like a x64 version of FP would have come out a long time ago. Oh well hope it will be soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 I have tested a nightly build of 4.0b2pre and it seems hey have fixed some of the GUI problems ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naota Posted July 21, 2010 Share Posted July 21, 2010 Will Flash Player come in a 64-bit version soon?We are actively working on the release of a native 64-bit Flash Player for the desktop, and we will provide native support for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux 64-bit platforms in an upcoming major release of Flash Player.Oh Adobe... they have been saying that ever since Vista 64bit. lol. I hope they come through though. ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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