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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:43:11 -0600 |
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Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Willie WY Wong |
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> <wongwwy@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > Actually, why is it that upstream does not provide 64bit binaries? |
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> > (It always bothers me to see my wife's Windows 7 machines running a |
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> > copy 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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It's mostly that their build people have had more important stuff to |
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deal with for a while, such as adjusting their system to deal with the |
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new-ish release cycle and giving their devs more a more flexible system |
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for building testing binaries. (And there's been almost no clamor from |
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the Windows world for 64-bit builds. For people who are clamoring, |
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there's a third-party build called Waterfox.) |
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But I thought they do release 64-bit binaries for Linux. There's a |
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linux-x86_64 directory in their stable release directory, |
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<ftp://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/latest/>. |
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