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I thought Firefox 21 is a 64-bit browser

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ilomambo
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Feb 26, 2013. I was using Firefox nightly channel (version 21 till yesterday) because I read here that Gecko 21 will be 64 bit. After the last update, Nightly became Aurora and when I downloaded and started the Aurora installer I realize it is a 32bit browser (because it was going to be installed in Program Files(x86) ) !!!! What channel features the 64bit Firefox?

Feb 26, 2013. I was using Firefox nightly channel (version 21 till yesterday) because I read here that Gecko 21 will be 64 bit. After the last update, Nightly became Aurora and when I downloaded and started the Aurora installer I realize it is a 32bit browser (because it was going to be installed in Program Files(x86) ) !!!! What channel features the 64bit Firefox?

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the-edmeister
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Win-64 builds are available on the Nightly latest-trunk FTP page.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Scroll all the way to the bottom for the latest builds.

I don't know where you read that about Gecko 21 being 64-bit, because there was an announce back in November that further development on Win-64 builds was being suspended until further notice.

ilomambo
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Well, I've been on the Nightly channel even before November 2012, when the announcement was made. And this is is the name of the zip file I installed:

firefox-19.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64

Therefore, you see, I expected when it moved to the Aurora channel, to still be 64bit, but as I said, the installer made clear the Aurora release is not a continuation of the nightly track I was on.

I downloaded the latest zip from your link, but I wish, as a gesture of thanks for the feedback data that has been streaming from me to Mozilla while using Nightly versions, that I would get a full and detailed explanation of what are my options, when they move releases from channel to channel. The way it was handled, I feel, is they used me and they throw me.

James
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There is no known future version of Firefox that will have a Win64 build for release.

The Win64 test builds are only on the unstable Nightly development channel and have yet to be also on Aurora, Beta or Release channel. Every time a new Release comes the versions moves/merges to next channel and Nightly gets a new version.

These Nightly builds are meant more for testers and devs as they get checkins pretty much everyday and therefore a update each day as a result. Also the Win64 Nightlies are supported even less now as they have since been downgraded to Tier-3 platform more recently while the officially supported Win32, Mac OSX 32/64-bit and Linux 2/64-bit builds are Tier-1 platform. The Win64 nightlies are still more for the purpose of catching regressions/breakages as it is possible to break Win64 builds without affecting any of the officially supported builds.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Supported_build_configurations