{"id":2350,"date":"2015-12-15T14:58:23","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T14:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T15:31:09","slug":"firefox-64-bit-for-windows-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/12\/15\/firefox-64-bit-for-windows-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 64-bit Web Browser for Windows Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>UPDATE 2017-08-14: <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/firefox\/firefox-64-default-64-bit-windows\/\">64-bit Firefox is now the default on 64-bit Windows<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On December 15, 2015 we released the 64-bit Firefox web browser for Windows 7 64-bit systems. This browser version offers gains in performance for Firefox users with <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/15056\/windows-7-32-64-bit-faq\">64-bit PCs<\/a>. We\u2019re pleased to offer it to users of Windows 7 and above who are looking for added performance for applications and games while running the Firefox web browser. This version offers improvements over the 32-bit version of Firefox.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox 64-bit for Windows, by design, has limited support for plugins. Users will notice that certain sites requiring plugins that worked in previous 32-bit versions of Firefox might not work in this 64-bit version. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/10\/08\/npapi-plugins-in-firefox\/\">As we\u2019ve shared previously, Mozilla intends to remove support for most NPAPI plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016. <\/a><em>(Update &#8211; Mozilla removed support for NPAPI plugins when it<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/07\/lots-new-in-firefox-game-changing-webassembly-support\/\"> shipped Firefox 52<\/a> on March 7, 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Download. Try It. Give Us Feedback.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>To download and install the Firefox 64-bit web browser for Windows go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/all\/\">Firefox All Systems <\/a>page. For the latest Firefox release, you can also go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\">Firefox download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re counting on your <a href=\"https:\/\/input.mozilla.org\/feedback\/firefox\">feedback<\/a> to continue improving Firefox with 64-bit support. You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/new\/\">read up on Firefox 64-bit in our Support community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>More information:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Download<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/all\/\"> Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Release Notes for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/43.0\/releasenotes\/\">Firefox for Windows, Mac, Linux<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE 2017-08-14: 64-bit Firefox is now the default on 64-bit Windows. On December 15, 2015 we released the 64-bit Firefox web browser for Windows 7 64-bit systems. This browser version &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/12\/15\/firefox-64-bit-for-windows-available\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[311669],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firefox 64-bit Web Browser for Windows Now Available - Future Releases<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"64-bit Firefox web browser supports 64-bit Windows systems and delivers high performance browsing on web games and other web applications.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/12\/15\/firefox-64-bit-for-windows-available\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Mayo\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/12\/15\/firefox-64-bit-for-windows-available\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2015\/12\/15\/firefox-64-bit-for-windows-available\/\",\"name\":\"Firefox 64-bit Web Browser for Windows Now Available - 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