Firefox x64

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I was just wondering if people know if theres an offical firefox x64 version coming out in the near future?
I know of that deerfield? - but I would rather wait and have the real deal as it were.
 
yes... i am fully aware of that, I am using it now..
i was asking if there was an offical x64 client in the process, any rumours and whatnot
 
What is exactly the diffrence between them both, same question about IE as well i've run both and seen no difference. Anyone care to explain ??
 
There is an theory a potential performance boost with 64bit code, but realistically in a web browser you are not going to see any difference imo.
 
Furton said:
I can't see any difference except that flash isn't available for X64 browsers yet :(
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funny flash runs fine in my v64 rig (on ie64), shockwave doesn't want to install and I'm not going to go hacking just to make it work.
 
divaboy said:
What is exactly the diffrence between them both, same question about IE as well i've run both and seen no difference. Anyone care to explain ??
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IE 64bit is completely sandboxed from the rest of your PC - no matter what goes on inside of your Internet Explorer (even when you run ActiveX controls and so on), it is securely boxed out of the rest of your PC. Also, 64bit ActiveX controls can be run on IE64, likewis 64bit 'objects' (such as SVG components).
 
JimpsEd said:
IE 64bit is completely sandboxed from the rest of your PC - no matter what goes on inside of your Internet Explorer (even when you run ActiveX controls and so on), it is securely boxed out of the rest of your PC. Also, 64bit ActiveX controls can be run on IE64, likewis 64bit 'objects' (such as SVG components).
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So what that in english ??cold you explain inmore simpler terms for a dense person:p
 
lsg1r said:
yes but its still in beta

linky
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That isn't official, and AFAIK there isn't going to be an official x64 Firefox for at least a year (i.e. out past Fx3).

I know of that deerfield? - but I would rather wait and have the real deal as it were.
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Deer Park is Firefox 1.5 with the official branding switched off, i.e. no Firefox logo and the name changed. Anything could be called Deer Park - I could compile Firefox and change nothing and as long as I changed --enable-official-branding, you'd get a browser that said "Deer Park", "Bon Echo" (2.0.0.x) or "Gran Paradiso" (3.0.x).
 
is it not as simple as just taking the firefox source (it is opensource anyway, right?) and compiling it for vista x64? Seems to work fine in Gentoo.
 
tolien said:
That isn't official, and AFAIK there isn't going to be an official x64 Firefox for at least a year (i.e. out past Fx3).



Deer Park is Firefox 1.5 with the official branding switched off, i.e. no Firefox logo and the name changed. Anything could be called Deer Park - I could compile Firefox and change nothing and as long as I changed --enable-official-branding, you'd get a browser that said "Deer Park", "Bon Echo" (2.0.0.x) or "Gran Paradiso" (3.0.x).
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aaa thank you for clearing up the mis-understanding
 
Rebelius said:
is it not as simple as just taking the firefox source (it is opensource anyway, right?) and compiling it for vista x64? Seems to work fine in Gentoo.
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AFAIK Firefox won't build for x64, and there are higher priorities right now, so long as x86 versions run.
Most *nix distros don't just distribute the source straight from Mozilla. It certainly is open source though, so you're free to make it work on Windows.
 
i've no idea how one goes about compiling something for windows, I guess it's WAAAY more complicated than just typing "emerge mozilla-firefox" in a command line.

pretty sure that's exactly what gentoo does though - downloads the source and compiles it for your system.

my mate uses gentoo with only 64-bit stuff and firefox works fine on it, think he had a load of trouble getting flash to work properly though.
 
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