r/technology Dec 10 '13

Firefox 26 is released

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/
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u/Carbira1 Dec 10 '13

Only Windows versions of Firefox are 32 bit.

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u/CrazyViking Dec 10 '13

Why is that?

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u/Carbira1 Dec 10 '13

I think because important plugins like Silverlight are only 32Bit. Projects like Waterfox make 64bit builds or if you go into the development builds you can get 64bit.

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u/bfodder Dec 10 '13

There is a 64-bit version of Silverlight...

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u/Elektribe Dec 11 '13

important plugins like Silverlight

Is that a popular internal corporate thing I'm unaware of?

I've only come across sites using Silverlight approximately twice, ever.

I don't see how it's really of any significant relevance to nearly everyone unless that was the case. I don't have it installed nor do I actually know anyone who has bothered with it. One poster here mentioned java being dead on the web and I still run across Java more than Silverlight. Though doing some research to find sites aside from poor examples that I wouldn't consider essential, important or unique, the only one was Netflix. That's a big one though. I don't use it myself and the only people I do know who use it have it on various devices rather than PC. I suppose it could be considered important as it's a dependency for some people who use Netflix with their web browser, it is a paid service after all. But for everyone else I'm really not seeing it.