Hello. Safari hangs very often on my MBP. As a result, I use Firefox most of the time. Occasionally, when I clicked to watch videos, Firefox asked me to switch to 32-bit mode. Anybody knows what is this all about? Don't understand why we need to switch mode.
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Why Firefox asked me to switch to 32-bit mode?
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CHAOS STEP
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This is common on Firefox, as it seems that it cannot deal certain types of content when it runs as 64-bit, you are therefore prompted for Firefox to re-start in 32-bit mode and then it does work.
You can't, by default select 32-bit to be the standard mode for it.
Its a right pain when your browsing porn vids eh? 😉
You can't, by default select 32-bit to be the standard mode for it.
Its a right pain when your browsing porn vids eh? 😉
Here is an example (sorry in Japanese only).
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/videonews/nnn?a=20111004-00000056-nnn-pol
You see a yellow banner on top asking for restarting using 32 bit mode.
I have the latest version of the flash/video plugin installed already.
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Thanks. Actually, is there a noticeable difference between running Firefox in 64-bit mode vs. in 32-bit mode?
IndyGopher
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I only see that on the Netflix site, because the videos are done with Microsoft Silverlight.
I don't have Silverlight installed but if Microsoft haven't done a 64 bit plugin version then that's your reason.
Quad5Ny
macrumors 6502a
32-bit applications can't allocate >4GB of memory. Other than that, there should be no difference.