Mozilla engineering manager has asked that all work on 64bit versions cease.
builds often crash, many plugins are not available in 64-bit versions, and hangs are more common due to a lack of coding which causes plugins to function incorrectly
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57553467-93/mozilla-quietly-ceases-firefox-64-bit-development/
Well, who ever goes over 3.5 GB memory use when browsing, anyway?
I mean, besides me...
As far as x86 continue working properly... Like it or not x64 is becoming mainstream. X86 will be obsolete in the near future, I reckon.
slightly misleading, they've only stopped building x64 NIGHTLY and HOURLY builds
I uninstalled Waterfox a while ago after it started causing problems. It was running fine for a few months, then, blech. I'm back on FF 16.01.
slightly misleading, they've only stopped building x64 NIGHTLY and HOURLY builds
An alternative way of saying that is that there will be no further Beta 64 bit variants,
and henceforth all available official Firefox x64 users will be Beta Testers.
So no change there then