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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by raverbashing on Thursday November 22, 2012 @05:52AM (#4818310)
Let me just say something

"Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition released on April 25, 2005" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edi...

7 years.

Go to a store, see what kind of Windows is being shipped, if it's 32 or 64bits.

If there's one version that has to be discontinued that version is the 32-bit version.

Linux as well suffers with lack of 64-bit versions, it seems Mozilla started shipping them the other day (and is not very promoted)

Computers already ship with more than 4GB memory.

Leave 32-bit, it's been enough time already.

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by easytiger on Thursday November 22, 2012 @05:54AM (#4818316)
> Linux as well suffers with lack of 64-bit versions,

Only in commercial or prop software

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by davidw on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:06AM (#4818345)
When you pay for memory on a monthly basis, economizing on it may be a good idea:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by raverbashing on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:24AM (#4818385)
Don't compare the Virtual Size of process. This is not how it works. And yes, running x64 on my Linode/

Also, see the limitations of MongoDB and Go for example, in 32-bit systems, they are very relevant.

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by davidw on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:51AM (#4818429)
I look at RSS in those numbers too, and they're lower on 32 bit systems, obviously, That is how it works.

I'm not interested in MongoDB in the slightest, and while Go looks pretty cool, I'll wait for it to mature.

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by raverbashing on Thursday November 22, 2012 @07:45AM (#4818543)
Sure, still, what really affects memory usage is data, not programs.

So if memory is an issue in 64-bits, most likely it will be an issue as well in 32-bit. In some cases it may make a difference, but they're not that common.

Even EC2 Micro supports 64-bits now

Sure, 64-bit uses more memory, like 32-bit use more memory than 16-bit, or like programs in ARM (and maybe Thumb) take more space than programs in x86

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Re:Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows by adambyrtek on Thursday November 22, 2012 @06:26AM (#4818391)
You run Firefox on a VPS?
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