The first official Firefox 64-bit builds for the Microsoft Windows operating system began to appear on the Mozilla ftp server last week. These first builds were missing the dll MSVCR100.dll which is part of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64). Early adopters and testers who wanted to test the 64-bit build of Firefox for Windows had to download the redistributable package first to be able to start the web browser.
The latest nightly which was just uploaded to the ftp server has been rebuild to include the missing dll component so that Windows 64-bit users can now download and run the Firefox 64-bit browser right away.
With the first bugs sorted out it is only a matter of time until the Mozilla devs will build the first alpha release of Firefox 4. The browser is expected to be released for 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems later this year.
Users who want to download and test the new 64-bit Windows nightlies of the Firefox browser can download the latest snapshots from the official Mozilla ftp.
Firefox versions of all supported operating systems are stored in the ftp folder. 64-bit Windows users need to download firefox-3.7a5pre.en-US.win64-x86_64.zip or firefox-3.7a5pre.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe.
They should also note that barely any plugins – with the exception of Java – are available as 64-bit versions. This means no Flash for instance at this time.
Update: Almost two years later, and Mozilla still has not made available a stable 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows users. The browser has moved beyond version 4, which is no longer maintained or supported by the company. The current release version is Firefox 11, and Firefox 4 users should consider upgrading their browser to that version as soon as possible to protect it from security and stability issues.
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Im currently using Firefox 3.6.3 (64bit) and I have to say, I really like not having flash + other plugins :)
First, your browser is 10000 times more secure and really fast because you don’t have to load and display all the crappy effects / ads.
And if you want to see a video or play a game, then you just copy/paste the url from FF to Chrome and you can now enjoy music/video/games/etc.
You can use adblockplus for the crappy effects / ads.
ROTFLMAO!!! good one , some people are too stupid to open the box.
A website can easy detect if you use adblockers and redirect you to a “please disable your adblocker on our website”-side, so it’s not the perfect solution.
And your browser is still alot more unsafe with the flash plugin (then you can use NoScript, but if you add a site to your “whitelist” and the side gets hacked, then your just as vulnable as without noscript).