Re: [OT] Why IE9 64-bit?

[Glen Harvy]

Hi Ian, I'm speechless! Glen. On 24/03/2011 6:08 PM, Ian Thomas 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. Anyone? ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia