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If users were hoping for a 64-bit version of Firefox...bad news, this is not going to happen - now, nor in the near future. The reasons are according to a message posted to Bugzilla, Benjamin Smedberg, a developer with consulting from Mozdev stated that the Win64 builds need to stop. Win64 builders are a constant source of misunderstanding and frustration, because of the following:
1. Many plugins are still natively not available in 64-bit versions of Windows.
2. The 64-bit plugins that are available don't even work correctly in Firefox, because developers have not implemented things like windowproc hooking, which means that browser hangs are more common.
3. Crashes submitted by users of 64-bit Windows OSes are currently not high priority, because developers are working on other things.
4. Developing Win64 builds are frustrating for users, because they feel (and absolutely are) second class.
5. It is also frustrating for stability team triage, because crash-stats does NOT easily distinguish between x86 and x64 builds in the topcrash lists and other reports. Developers have basically ignored a set of nightly "topcrashes", because they are x64 only.
For these obvious reasons, Mozilla made a decision to disable the Win64 nightly builds for now and should publish a custom update to move the current Win64 nightly users back to Win32 and should disable Win64 builds completely.
And for these reasons, it's obvious that Win64 builds never made it out of Nightly and will be scrapped until further notice. Users who are on Windows XP x64 and later can still run the Win32 builds of Firefox (Nightly, Aurora, Beta and Released versions).
Is everyone disappointed about Benjamin's decision to turn off Win64 builds?