Just updated to the latest version of Firefox 55 from within Firefox & it didn't install automatically the 64 bit version even though I'm running 16GB of ram on Windows 7 x64. I downloaded the latest installer manually & that installed the 64 bit version. So now I have 2 versions of Firefox installed. I should be able to uninstall one version without affecting the other am I correct?
Also the only reason I'm asking this question is because according to the change log it's supposed to install the 64 bit automatically.
"Firefox for Windows 64-bit is now installed by default on 64-bit systems with at least 2GB of RAM"
No Automatic Installation of Firefox 64 bit with Firefox 55
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gugarci
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gugarci
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Re: No Automatic Installation of Firefox 64 bit with Firefox
Never mind found my answer on this thread.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3031946
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... &t=3031946
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James
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Re: No Automatic Installation of Firefox 64 bit with Firefox
Short version:
For Firefox 55 any Windows users who download the small stub installer from mozilla.org (and not full setup) will have 64-bit as default during install. It is as of Firefox 56.0 that Mozilla plans to give 64-bit updates to Windows users still using 32-bit unless they have less than 2GB of Ram (well actually 1800 MB). These updates will not affect those using ESR channels.
For Firefox 55 any Windows users who download the small stub installer from mozilla.org (and not full setup) will have 64-bit as default during install. It is as of Firefox 56.0 that Mozilla plans to give 64-bit updates to Windows users still using 32-bit unless they have less than 2GB of Ram (well actually 1800 MB). These updates will not affect those using ESR channels.