You're running Firefox 8? That's so last week.
Firefox 8 was just released last week. Some of you have probably yet to update. However, the releases are coming fast these days, as is evidenced by the fact that Firefox 9 Beta is already available for download. Mozilla recently announced that the "new, faster" Firefox Beta is now ready for testing and download with support for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Mozilla says FF9 Beta adds Type Inference to make JavaScript significantly faster; added support for Mac OS X Lion, including two-finger-swipe navigation and makes improved functionality for multiple displays; enables JavaScript to show developers when users choose to opt-out of behavioral tracking with the Do Not Track privacy feature; and chunking for XHR requests so websites can receive data that’s part of a large XHR download in progress.
Hit up Mozilla to get your hands on the newest Firefox beta.
As for the x86-64 version, the Mozilla code has been able to run in 64-bit ever since Mozilla Suite 1.0 in 2001, and I've used a 64-bit build of Firefox since 1.5. Problem is, not only was the 64-bit version of Visual Studio quite late in coming in an acceptable fashion and costly (you need to pay for the OS and the compiler suite), there were too many plugins still stuck in 32-bit for Firefox to run in a useful fashion in 64-bit Windows until very recently... At least on Windows.
On OS X and GNU/Linux, you use a recent build of GCC, and you're set. Still, you need to dedicate people to support it. On OS X, you get an iDrone, and it's alright (eventhough OS X support was quite bad until version 3.0); on Linux, distros do that for Mozilla. And on Windows...?
Exactly, where is the 64 bit version..... might have to wait for it when I build my first 128bit pc. :-(
Don't mess with success.
I see what you did there.
I downloaded FF8 and got a weird story about some socially awkward teenage amnesiacs in a flying school hunting a sorceress. Oh... wait. You mean THAT FF8.
I believe you need to reformat or get a new computer. I've used firefox for 7 years and never experienced reoccurring crashes. I'm sick of seeing FF haters immediately point out crashing and memory hog because they have faulty computers.
Wait, so they've explicitly implemented a way to track which users say that they don't want to be tracked? Rather ironic I think.
It decided that Windows wasn't worthy and has been living with Linux for the last few years.
It's sooooooooooooooo much better han ff8!
Anyone else here pissed their pants like I did?!
I can't believe it! ff9 is finally here!!
Mozilla you guys rock! You are the smarting people in the world! Spending years doing a complete re-write of your browser that is so totally not ff8!
Oh!!! I tinkled again!