Firefox 64 bit recommendations

[astral]

I run Win 7 64 bit version with 8Gb of memory

The best Mozilla version of FF is 32bit

Has anyone tried any of the 3rd party 64 offerings?

What do you recommend?

No, I do not want to change to IE, Chrome and the like, thank you

[JSixpack]

I tried Waterfox and liked it but there are not so many 64-bit extensions, not the ones I really like. (The extensions have to be 64-bit also). And I prefer portable versions whenever possible, and Waterfox isn't.

[RichCor]

What are you hoping to achieve by running a 64-bit browser client?

Increased Address Space

Security Flow (exploits require 64-bit compliance in order to work)

3-operand VEX-encoded versions of the existing SSE instruction sets

"In just some random testing, IE 32bit on x64 versus IE 64bit on x64 shows the 32bit version to be 5-20% slower depending on how graphically rich the content is and how much FP is being used that also benefits from being 64bit."

As I run a 32-bit OS I have little actual experience with the woes of the 64-bit OS user so I had to plagiarize the above comments from this 2014 article in order to feign sympathy.

The article does namedrop Waterfox and Cyberfox (sourceforge) as 64-bit alternatives.

[astral]

What are you hoping to achieve by running a 64-bit browser client?

I am hoping that a 64 bit version would be more efficient

perhaps more stable?

The latter seems a dream at the moment

[canopus1969]

Have you updated to V29 ?

[astral]

Yes

I like the new image and it seems a little faster

But still only 32bit