Firefox for Windows finally has an official, stable 64-bit build

Posted by BernardSwiss on Dec 16, 2015 5:05 PM EDT
Ars Technica; By Sebastian Anthony 		Mail this story
Print this story

64-bit Firefox for Windows is mostly identical to 32-bit Firefox for Windows, except that very few plug-ins will work with 64-bit Firefox. This is by design: Mozilla is in the process of dropping Firefox's support for NPAPI plug-ins. NPAPI support is being dropped due to (ostensible) stability and security concerns. Amusingly (or ironically), though, 64-bit Firefox does still support one plug-in: Flash. Sites that use other NPAPI plug-ins, such as Silverlight or Java, are being told by Mozilla to "accelerate their transition to Web technologies."

Full Story

  Nav
» Read more about: Story Type: News Story; Groups: Community, Developer, Microsoft, Mozilla

« Return to the newswire homepage

This topic does not have any threads posted yet!

You cannot post until you login.