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.

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 ...

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 ...