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Mozilla quietly kills Firefox 64-bit for Windows, despite an estimated 50% of testers using it

Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg last Friday quietly posted a thread over on the Google Groups mozilla.dev.planning discussion board titled “Turning off win64 builds.” By Wednesday, ...
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Mozilla backpedals on Firefox 64-bit for Windows, will keep nightly builds coming after all

Last month, Mozilla Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg quietly announced that the 64-bit version of Firefox for Windows would never see the light of day. After what he referred to as “significant ...
TweakTown

Mozilla ends Firefox 64-bit for Windows builds

And just like that, Mozilla has ended nightly builds of Firefox 64-bit for Windows. The reasoning behind doing so is logical and was laid out by Engineering Manager Benjamin Smedberg. Only 5 days ...
CNET

Mozilla quietly ceases Firefox 64-bit development

Mozilla engineering manager Benjamin Smedberg has asked developers to stop nightly builds for Firefox versions optimized to run on 64-bit versions of Windows. A developer thread posted on the Google ...