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 ...

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 ...

Consumer 64-bit processors have been around for a long time now -- AMD began selling the Athlon 64, for instance, way back in 2003. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was released by Microsoft in ...

Mozilla has (finally) made 64-bit Firefox the default for users running a 64-bit edition of Windows. The switch has taken several years its arrival should help bump up security and reduce crashes.

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 ...

Weirdly, there’s never been a 64-bit version of Firefox until now. But if you’re running Windows 7 or later, you can now explore the internet with the browser while using twice its current 32 bits.

Mozilla engineers have decided that starting with Firefox 56 they will silently and forcibly auto-upgrade some users of 32-bit Firefox to 64-bit versions. Obviously, the only ones that will be ...