Mozilla has (finally) made 64-bit Firefox the default for users running a 64-bit edition of Windows. The switch has taken several years its arrival should help bump up security and reduce crashes.

Mozilla now automatically delivers the 64-bit version of Firefox to Windows users with compatible hardware, the open-source developer said this week. (Firefox can be downloaded here.) “Users on 64-bit ...

Consumer 64-bit processors have been around for a long time now -- AMD began selling the Athlon 64, for instance, way back in 2003. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was released by Microsoft in ...

Firefox 8 64-bit is 10-15% faster than its 32-bit brother, and with 64-bit versions of Flash and Java now available it's finally time to embrace 64-bit surfing. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

The long-awaited Windows 64-bit version of the Firefox browser is in prospect. It is already available to download in the Firefox Developer Edition Channel. There has been a 64-bit Linux version of ...

Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg last Friday quietly posted a thread over on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board titled “Turning off win64 builds.” By Wednesday, ...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 43 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include a 64-bit version for Windows (finally!), a new strict blocklist for the browser’s ...

Mozilla has joined the 64-bit browsing party with Firefox for Windows, but only in the Developer Edition for now. The Developer Edition is a special version of Firefox with built-in tools for creating ...