Firefox users who wanted to use a 64-bit edition of the popular web browser either had the choice to download and use the 64-bit build of the web browser for Linux or resort to the (unsupported) Firefox 64-bit Windows downloads at the Mozilla x86-64 website to download builds for the Windows operating system.
This changed yesterday with the first sightings of 64-bit builds of Firefox for Windows on the official Firefox Nightly server. The first 64-bit build is experimental at this time and not intended for work environments.
The plan still stands to distribute 64-bit editions of Firefox with the release of Firefox 4 later this year.
It has to be noted that most browser plugins will not be compatible with a 64-bit edition of Firefox. Only Java and a non-final Flash version are currently supported.
The Windows builds of Firefox have another problem. A redistributable is missing (msvcr100.dll) and needs to be downloaded from Microsoft. It is likely that this is just a faux pax that will be corrected in future builds.
Firefox 64-bit for Windows, Linux and Mac can be downloaded from the official (and public) Mozilla ftp server. But keep in mind, the versions are experimental at this point in time.
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normally 64bit apps install automatically in the C:\Program Files\ but this version firefox-3.7a5pre.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe installs in the C:\Program Files (x86)\ the usual place for 32-bit apps to install ina 64bit windows os.
… just does not look right to my comfort.
problem in opening this 64bit version of firefox. the error message i get is – “The program can’t start bcause MSVCr100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.”
now where to find this msvcr100.dll??
As said in the article you need to download that from Microsoft, just follow the link in the article to the Microsoft website.
yeah…i did that but it still displays some error A000000x… no idea what it means..!!??
Do not know what it means either. Maybe contact Mozilla support or ask in the Mozilla support channel on IRC?
hi Phoenix, Martin;
Thanks for giving these new experimental win64 builds a trial-run. We’re tracking all these issues in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558448 ” [Tracking bug] officially support Windows 64-bit builds”. It would be really helpful if you could comment in that bug with exact details of your OS version, the buildID of the win64 build you are running and the details of any problems you encountered.
Thanks again for trying these new builds – its an exciting time for Firefox.
take care
John.
ps: Dont forget: we are still working to get nightly-updates for win64, so in the meanwhile, you’ll have to manually download a new nightly build to see improvements.
And for those actually wanting a link http://nightly.mozilla.org/
Martin, where I can find that non-final Flash version w
Here
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/64bit.html
It’s seems to be only for Linux, oh well…