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* Not sure what to do if users have both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox installed | * Not sure what to do if users have both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox installed | ||
|Feature overview=Offering a x86 64-bit Firefox to Windows 7 (and Vista) 64-bit users brings one immediate and major improvement. It would help dramatically with OOM crashes due to address space exhaustion. There are potential performance benefits as well -- especially in JavaScript land. | |Feature overview=Offering a x86 64-bit Firefox to Windows 7 (and Vista) 64-bit users brings one immediate and major improvement. It would help dramatically with OOM crashes due to address space exhaustion. There are potential performance benefits as well -- especially in JavaScript land. | ||
This feature falls primarily in the '''Experience''' category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.) | |||
|Feature users and use cases=Users with 64-bit Windows 7 (and Vista) can currently use Firefox 32-bit builds and that's what we offer them. But the 32-bit builds can only use part of the user's memory address space and so we are not taking full advantage of the user's platform capabilities. | |Feature users and use cases=Users with 64-bit Windows 7 (and Vista) can currently use Firefox 32-bit builds and that's what we offer them. But the 32-bit builds can only use part of the user's memory address space and so we are not taking full advantage of the user's platform capabilities. | ||
|Feature dependencies=* Platform engineering resources are needed to implement running 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit Firefox. | |Feature dependencies=* Platform engineering resources are needed to implement running 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit Firefox. | ||