Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2016 22:41:01 UTC+2 schrieb Benjamin Smedberg: > We have considered this, but in the grand rollout plans for 64-bit Firefox > it's low on the list. We're still dealing with Flash sandboxing/functional > regressions as a blocker for wider rollout, and the next step is probably > to progressively roll out win64 to new users before we consider anything > for existing users. > > This will be much easier now that we have widevine and are dropping > npapi/silverlight, but addon compat is also a concern and we wanted to > partly wait for webextensions before pushing more on this. > > --BDS
Sounds like a plan for me! Maybe there can be a ship of a installer that include 32bit & 64bit? Or at least have one web-installer for both versions? Also giving the user the change to make a easy upgrade from 32bit to 64bit with the offline-installer would be nice and a good test-drive for a future auto-update... > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Ted Mielczarek <t...@mielczarek.org> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Given all the discussion around SSE[2] lately, I was curious as to > > whether we had made any plans to update Windows users that are running > > 32-bit Windows builds on a 64-bit Windows OS to our 64-bit Windows > > builds. The 64-bit Windows builds do use SSE2, since that's a baseline > > requirement for x86-64 processors, and the overall performance should > > generally be better (modulo memory usage, I'm not sure if we have an > > exact comparison). Additionally 64-bit builds are much less likely to > > encounter OOM crashes due to address space fragmentation since they have > > a very large address space compared to the maximum 4GB available to the > > 32-bit builds. > > > > It does seem like we'd need some minimal checking here, obviously first > > for whether the user is running 64-bit Windows, but also possibly > > whether they use 32-bit plugins (until such time as we unsupport NPAPI). > > 32-bit plugins will not work on a 64-bit Windows Firefox (we do not have > > the equivalent of Universal binaries like we do on OS X). > > > > -Ted > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
