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crosscourt
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« on: July 17, 2011, 04:29:04 PM »

Mozilla announced that Firefox will be going 64 bit for Windows but the question remains how will it perform?
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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2011, 04:36:44 PM »


 Wonder how its going to work out ? Buggy the start before they get it tweak out ?  Hope that won't take forever and be a draw out thing
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2011, 04:39:03 PM »

Ive already used a 64 bit version thats offered thru my Linux distro and had few issues.

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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2011, 05:06:50 PM »

They do a good job over all before releasing something like that so I don't look for any major issues
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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2011, 05:09:18 PM »

Using Firefox 5 right now with success and much faster than many realize.
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« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2011, 05:44:37 PM »

Also running 5.0 and I'm satisfied
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« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2011, 06:07:20 PM »

Running 7.0 and a lot of extensions don't work. So I'm mainly using 5.0.
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2011, 06:20:47 PM »

5.0 had a few issues initially not many.
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« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2011, 12:12:13 AM »

Kind of old thread I know...but I have been using 5.0 on win 7 64bit home premium and have had very few issues as well.
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2011, 01:43:49 PM »

Held off about updating to FF 6.0 , doing that now to see how it works out
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2011, 02:04:21 PM »

Held off about updating to FF 6.0 , doing that now to see how it works out

 Just finished the update and right off the bat a noticeable improvement in speed loading the site , much better load times.
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