- #Mozilla thunderbird 64 bit install#
- #Mozilla thunderbird 64 bit 64 Bit#
- #Mozilla thunderbird 64 bit code#
#Mozilla thunderbird 64 bit install#
If you do run into a problem (that you want to report as a bug or ask for help using the forums) its recommended that you use custom setup to install a 32 bit build in a different directory, and try to duplicate the problem with the officially supported build. It doesn't mean that you can't get help for it in the forums. What unsupported really means is that QA doesn't test it and you're more likely to run into a regression bug than a supported build. There is no ETA for when they will be officially supported. They won't be officially supported until you see a statement to that effect in either a official blog post or the release notes, or you can download the setup program from the web site. The reason why they're marked as release builds is due to changes in the build system. They seem to work fine but are not tested and are unofficial/unsupported. Ħ4 bit release builds for Thunderbird are available from some Mozilla web sites.
#Mozilla thunderbird 64 bit 64 Bit#
There aren't any official 64 bit builds of Thunderbird and SeaMonkey for Windows. Official 64 bit builds of Firefox for Windows are available on the normal download page starting with version 43.0. A 64 bit version might be faster due to it being optimized for CPU's that support x86-64 (it has twice as many general purpose registers and SSE/SSE2 registers as a x86 CPU, and they're all twice the width).
#Mozilla thunderbird 64 bit code#
Code that uses large data types (64/128 bit WORDs) will be faster because you don't need to play the 'split it into 32 bit WORDs' game.Code that is not careful about memory packing/alignment can run less efficiently as 64 bit.The effective processor cache size will also be reduced. 64 bit pointers are larger than 32 bit pointers, so there's more memory to move around, causing a potential performance hit. Code that uses a lot of pointers will consume more memory.This updated blog post benchmarks 32 and 64 bit versions of Firefox, including Waterfox (specifically compiled for 64-bit) and concludes that " We should see some performance improvements in the future, but Firefox 64-bit doesn’t appear to give you a faster browsing experience at this time." This Ghacks article compares 32 and 64 bit versions of popular browsers and concludes " Most differences are marginal and not visible to the user. Typically you only want to use a 64 bit version if the application exceeds the 4GB virtual memory space limit. If you had poor performance before you might not notice any improvement. However, unless the the application is able to take advantage of the wider registers (typically multimedia encoding/decoding, cryptographic, or number crunching applications), you may not see any performance improvement. You can run a 32 bit version of a Mozilla application using a 64 bit kernel (Windows 7 圆4 etc.) though a 64 bit version "supposedly" increases performance.