![]() ![]() Still, ahead of the Firefox 4.0 Beta planned for June 2010, Mozilla is looking to offer early adopters at least one more Developer Preview to test-drive. Firefox 4.0 is currently cooking, with the promise of a Beta development milestone available as early as the coming month. ![]() Obviously, a 64-bit (圆4) version of Mozilla’s open source browser will only be delivered in the future. Users of 圆4 Firefox won’t have a release of the Adobe Flash plugin to integrate with their browser, severely impacting the user experience on websites such as YouTube, for example. One illustrative example in this regard is that Adobe isn’t providing a 圆4 version of Flash to integrate with 圆4 Internet Explorer 8. 64-bit browsers don’t really enjoy support across the board for the time being. However, as customers undoubtedly are aware, the default browser for Windows 7 is the 32-bit version of IE8, despite the fact that the operating system features the 圆4 flavor. The latest iteration of the Windows client comes with Internet Explorer 8 (64-bit) out of the box. Of course, users of Windows 7 already have a 64-bit browser at their disposal. ![]() Early adopters will, of course, be able to download 圆4 Firefox releases and run them on 64-bit Windows 7. Mozilla’s Armen Zambrano Gasparian revealed that, “Once the builds start working (I almost have them) they will show up in” the Latest Trunk download section. In a platform meeting on May 25th, 2010, Mozilla indicated that it had been gearing up to produce the first 圆4 builds of Firefox tailored to Windows 7 by the end of this week. Users currently running the 64-bit flavor of Windows 7 will soon be able to install a 64-bit version of Firefox offered officially by Mozilla. In fact, the software giant is already producing 圆4 exclusive software with Windows Server 2008 R2 and beyond, for example. Microsoft was one of the first companies to recognize the trend and adapt products such as Windows XP, and then Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Office 2010 to the general trend in the evolution of processors. 64-bit (圆4) architectures are the future, and already well on their way to becoming mainstream and burying 32-bit (圆4). ![]() UPDATE: The Alpha preview of 64-bit (圆4) Firefox 4.0 for Windows 7 (64-x86_64) is available for download - read about it here. ![]()
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