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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Willie WY Wong <wongwwy@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Actually, why is it that upstream does not provide 64bit binaries? (It |
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> always bothers me to see my wife's Windows 7 machines running a copy |
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> of firefox marked, in parenthesis, 32 bit.) |
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They're working on it... They actually have started generating 64-bit |
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nightly builds for Windows and Linux: |
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https://nightly.mozilla.org/ |
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If I had to guess what the hold-up has been: |
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User confusion about which version to use (32-bit will work for |
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everyone, 64-bit won't) |
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Plugin availability (even Adobe and Sun didn't make 64-bit flash or |
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java until recently) |
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