On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > A Q for Friday. Why would anyone want a 64-bit browser? > > I’m quite content with IE9, and installed the beta some time ago. > Firefox-Opera-CHROME don’t interest me now that IE handles MHT file save and > load better, and I’m inclined to agree with David Connors that browsers > became ho-hum a long time ago (well, that’s my extension of his remarks > about IE and Netscape). > > Just installed the final IE9 release, and the “beautiful” (ugh) website > detected my 64-bit CPU (I assume) so I downloaded the installer stub and > completed the install for the 64-bit version, but I was reminded by that > that both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available/installed (for all the > IE9 releases I have tried). > > afaik 32-bit is loaded by default by Windows 7, and I can’t see that a user > would gain from running the 64-bit version when all 32-bit apps that don’t > use / address more RAM function fine with Win7.
Why pay for a 64-bit machine only to use 32-bit programs! ;) > Anyone? > > ________________________________ > > Ian Thomas > > Victoria Park, Western Australia -- Noon Silk http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ (Noon Silk) | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > Fancy a quantum lunch? http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being this signature."
