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Following a curiously short discussion, and despite 50% of Nightly testers on windows using the 64-bit builds[1] and a Windows user demonstrating firefox using

by mappu 14y ago

Following a curiously short discussion, and despite 50% of Nightly testers on windows using the 64-bit builds[1] and a Windows user demonstrating firefox using 10GB of memory[2] (above the address space limit of 32-bit), the 64-bit nightly builds of Firefox on Windows are to be discontinued. _______________________________ 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814009 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814009 2. http://archive.installgentoo.net/g/thread/29261499 http://archive.installgentoo.net/g/thread/29261499 3. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/jpX_z5zieD4 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.fir... - Full discussion thread

RossDM 14y ago
Heh, that comment thread pretty much sums it up. Shame to see this happen.
benth 14y ago
Misleading headline and obviously you know it.
ajryan 14y ago
Seems like it would be better to focus on the single problem of not crossing the 32-bit address boundary rather than the multitude of x64 problems.
- shardling 14y ago
  That's not really possible -- you'll see that the folk crossing that boundary are keeping open several hundreds of tabs at a time. As memory usage is reduced, these folk will just open more tabs.
DanBC 14y ago
In case it's not obvious: [2] links to a chan style discussion board, with chan style culture. The first thing I read (because it's in big red letters) was "I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT CP IS NOT TOLERATED AND MUST BE REPORTED".
- mappu 14y ago
  Sorry, possibly could have made that more clear (it's also not affiliated with Gentoo). In defense of 4chan, the exact same rule applies to HN (the law applies to everyone), every large website has trouble with spam, and there's nothing offensive there outside of mild profanity and teenagerism. It's otherwise a perfectly ordinary technical discussion thread from a board that has a large number of firefox users and where Nightly is strongly encouraged amongst PC enthusiasts.
  - DanBC 14y ago
    Yes, I agree. I was perhaps a bit sniffy. Often great discussion can be found on those style boards.

by mappu 14y ago

RossDM 14y ago

Heh, that comment thread pretty much sums it up. Shame to see this happen.

benth 14y ago

Misleading headline and obviously you know it.

ajryan 14y ago

Seems like it would be better to focus on the single problem of not crossing the 32-bit address boundary rather than the multitude of x64 problems.

shardling 14y ago
That's not really possible -- you'll see that the folk crossing that boundary are keeping open several hundreds of tabs at a time. As memory usage is reduced, these folk will just open more tabs.

DanBC 14y ago

In case it's not obvious: [2] links to a chan style discussion board, with chan style culture. The first thing I read (because it's in big red letters) was "I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT CP IS NOT TOLERATED AND MUST BE REPORTED".

mappu 14y ago
Sorry, possibly could have made that more clear (it's also not affiliated with Gentoo). In defense of 4chan, the exact same rule applies to HN (the law applies to everyone), every large website has trouble with spam, and there's nothing offensive there outside of mild profanity and teenagerism. It's otherwise a perfectly ordinary technical discussion thread from a board that has a large number of firefox users and where Nightly is strongly encouraged amongst PC enthusiasts.
- DanBC 14y ago
  Yes, I agree. I was perhaps a bit sniffy. Often great discussion can be found on those style boards.