Mozilla should first develop 64-bit Windows Firefox

Mozilla announced last week that it would stop developing Firefox for 64-bit Windows, while Mozilla provides 64-bit versions for Linux and Mac OS X platforms. Peter Bright believes that Mozilla's decision is disappointing. The 64-bit Windows version should be a preferred development project. For most applications, whether to support 64-bit is not important, but Web browsers are another matter. Supporting 64-bit is of great value.

32-bit programs can use up to 4 GB of memory, 32-bit Windows itself needs to retain 2 GB or 1 GB, So 32-bit Windows programs can only use 2 GB or 3 GB of memory; on 64-bit Windows systems, the 32-bit program can use 4 GB memory, but the 64-bit program can access the memory more than many orders of magnitude.

Firefox has spent a lot of effort to reduce memory usage. If it has 64-bit memory, there is no need to worry that the memory will be used up. In addition, 64-bit security also brings additional security enhancements such as ASLR to reduce the risk of malicious programs accessing the hard disk.