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{{FeatureStatus | {{FeatureStatus | ||
|Feature name=Ship an Officially Supported 64-bit Firefox for Windows 7 64-bit Users | |Feature name=Ship an Officially Supported 64-bit Firefox for Windows 7 (and Vista) 64-bit Users | ||
|Feature stage=Draft | |Feature stage=Draft | ||
|Feature health=OK | |Feature health=OK | ||
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|Feature open issues and risks=* Plug-in support will be a major issue here. We do not want users to have a worse view of 64-bit builds than they do of 32-bit. | |Feature open issues and risks=* Plug-in support will be a major issue here. We do not want users to have a worse view of 64-bit builds than they do of 32-bit. | ||
* Not sure what to do if users have both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox installed | * Not sure what to do if users have both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox installed | ||
|Feature overview=Offering a x86 64-bit Firefox to Windows 7 (and Vista) 64-bit users brings one immediate and major improvement. It would help dramatically with OOM crashes due to address space exhaustion. There are potential performance benefits as well -- especially in JavaScript land. | |Feature overview=Offering a x86 64-bit Firefox to Windows 7 (and Vista) 64-bit users brings one immediate and major improvement. It would help dramatically with OOM crashes due to address space exhaustion. There are potential performance benefits as well -- especially in JavaScript land. | ||
|Feature users and use cases=Users with 64-bit Windows 7 (and Vista) can currently use Firefox 32-bit builds and that's what we offer them. But the 32-bit builds can only use part of the user's memory address space and so we are not taking full advantage of the user's platform capabilities. | |Feature users and use cases=Users with 64-bit Windows 7 (and Vista) can currently use Firefox 32-bit builds and that's what we offer them. But the 32-bit builds can only use part of the user's memory address space and so we are not taking full advantage of the user's platform capabilities. | ||
|Feature dependencies=* Platform engineering resources are needed to implement running 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit Firefox. | |Feature dependencies=* Platform engineering resources are needed to implement running 32-bit plug-ins in 64-bit Firefox. | ||
* Rel Eng will need to update systems for build, automation, and updating. | * Rel Eng will need to update systems for build, automation, and updating. | ||
* QA will have one more platform to test. | * QA will have one more platform to test. | ||
|Feature requirements=* Coherent 32 bit plugin on 64-bit build experience | |Feature requirements=* Coherent 32 bit plugin on 64-bit build experience | ||
* Build automation able to create 64 bit builds | * Build automation able to create 64 bit builds | ||