Firefox 4 is finally 64bit!

[Kosimo]

Did anybody know this? I though Safari was the only 64bit navigator for the mac platform.

 

[endless17]

So what does this improve, exactly?

 

[Kenndac]

Now it can hog all of your RAM, not just the 4Gb 32-bit apps are limited to.

 

[Kosimo]

How come nobody actually said anything about it?

Shouldn't this be an important feature for Mac Users?

 

[YsoSerious]

Took firefox for a spin tonight and thought it performed pretty good. I'm so used to chrome that it's gonna be hard going back and using firefox again.

 

[Merkyworks]

i thought Chrome was 64bit?

 

[OneMike]

Now it can hog all of your RAM, not just the 4Gb 32-bit apps are limited to.

that was my first thought lol

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

How come nobody actually said anything about it?

Shouldn't this be an important feature for Mac Users?

Only for those who obsess over the larger number of bits.

 

[maflynn]

COOL,
except what does this buy us, what improvement will a 64bit browser be over a 32bit browser?

 

[talmy]

64-bit code runs a bit faster than 32-bit code because the 64-bit processor architecture is more efficient (more registers).