"Thank you to everyone who participated in this thread," he said."Given the existing information, I have decided to proceed with disabling windows 64-bit nightly and hourly builds. Users, meanwhile, will still be able to run 32-bit Firefox on 64-bit Windows. Smedberg argues that the aforementioned issues causes users to feel"second class," while crash reports between 32-bit and 64-bit versions are said to be difficult to distinguish between for the browser's stability team. Hangs are also apparently common because of a lack of coding, subsequently causing plugins to function incorrectly. He claimed that 64-bit Firefox is a"constant source of misunderstanding and frustration," and stressed the builds often crash, as well as the fact that plugins are not available in 64-bit versions. Mozilla engineering manager Benjamin Smedberg asked developers to halt nightly builds for Firefox versions optimized to run on 64-bit versions of Windows.Ī developer thread posted by Smedberg on the Google Groups discussion board, which is titled"Turning off win64 builds", discussed ceasing development for the 64-bit builds of Firefox. Mozilla Discontinues 64-Bit Firefox Browserĭespite considerable interest, Mozilla has discontinued Firefox 64-bit development and asked developers to stop working on it.
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