Should I use Firefox and Thunderbird x64?

So Mozilla doesn't seem to want people using the 64-bit versions of their stuff because I have to google it to find the download. It seems like the 64-bit versions aren't the latest versions, so am I better off with the 64-bit version or should I just stick with the 32-bit version?

 

I would suggest you stick with the latest versions for security reasons. The 64 versions will catch up soon.

 

so...32-bit?

 

Unless your browser regularly consumes 2GB of ram i dont see why you need 64 bit.

 

Should be more than plenty. Flash extension is still stable with 32-bits

cheers ...

 

DO NOT use Mozilla's x64-bit versions. They are only available in the Nightly channel. If you're asking this question, you're not ready to be a Nightly tester.

 

You'd need a lot more than 25 actually.

 

I actually do use that many tabs at a time sometimes. When I'm shopping, the products that I might buy, I leave open in tabs so I can compare them. And sometimes, I'll get sidetracked and won't finish it for weeks so those tabs stay open the whole time.

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firefox 9 should have the feature where your tabs won't load until you navigate to them for the first time. that way, you can open 100 tabs, close the browser, and when you open the browser again, it won't try downloading 100 tabs worth of data.

there IS some tax in keeping the tab data stored(even if the page isn't loaded), but its rather minimal and you won't notice it till you hit 100+ tabs

 

Is the "sidetracked" caused in any part due to having to wade through 25 tabs to find anything? I know if I was faced with that many tabs I'd close the browser for weeks too.

 

i take it the vast majority of firefox users don't know about panorama?

 

I use Waterfox - some 64bit verison of Firefox. using same settings and plugins, so could be run simultaniously - just be aware, when uninstalling - don't tick uninstall pesonal data as it will delete shared firefox profile folders.

 

I just downloaded aurora which I guess is like the beta of Firefox and I downloaded thunderbird beta ( because I thought it was more stable than earlybird) but thunderbird seems slow at times

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firefox beta is beta aurora is alpha. firefox nightly(or minefield - same thing) is the working build/development.

difference being:
-alpha is a version of the program for DEVELOPERs not working on the project should be comfortable using
-beta is when all features are done and you need thousands of testers that you don't want to pay for
-development is the same code that company testers use and that the developers are coding right at that moment(new features are introduced at this stage usually)

thats a very rough guide and is my own opinion. everyone defines it differently.

 

Oh okay I don't want to deal with alphas. What about thunderbird? Is earlybird their alpha?
And for some reason, thunderbird beta is running slow (maybe because of my thousands of emails)

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The 64-bit version of Firefox isn't just intended to handle it using over 2gb, in fact, never heard any speculation or discussion as such in relation to that when comparing 32-bit to 64-bit browsers. The browser runs as a 64-bit process, thus allowing 64-bit computation with everything in regards to it. Basically, much faster. Using Pale Moon x64 (A Firefox x64 variant, search it if you want) I notice a major improvement in speed. I was one of the people with the latest Firefox 9 having issues with it pausing and halting for a bit...Pale Moon did away with that and made it much faster start up and during browsing. What stopped x64 browsers for so long was Adobe Flash never being x64...hell minefield x64 (64 bit browser by Mozilla) never came to final or fruition because of Flash not being 64 bit back then. Now, hilariously, it's the browsers that we're waiting on.