Many of us love using Firefox. Its an open source browser with tons of add-ons and high compatibility. I myself am a very big fan. It also provides a sync feature that enables to maintain the same bookmarks/saved history/passwords etc. across all our devices.
What most of us don't know is that apart from the normal version of Firefox(what most of us use) there are several other versions available that are not advertised anywhere. There is a reason behind it...these builds are not stable and may have some crashing issues. But these are too slight for general everyday users like us and surely we must give them a try.
We all know about 64-bit software these days...Photoshop has a 64-bit version, WinRAR has a 64-bit version and even flash has a 64-bit edition. These versions utilize the full capacity of your processors and give you improved speed and efficiency.
SO WHY NOT WITH A BROWSER?
We use Chrome, IE and Firefox...but all of them are 32-bit versions...if you run the Task Manager of Windows then too the chromes process is named as "chrome*32.exe"
Similar is the case with Firefox.
THANKFULLY, being an open source software developers have released a 64-bit flavor of the browser as well.
It is known as "WATERFOX".
You can download it from here and believe me you will notice the change in speed.
DOWNLOAD LINK.
Don't worry it uses the same profile as the firefox browser and none of your data will be lost. :-)
For even enthusiastic readers, here are few more releases of firefox...
Download Firefox beta
Download Aurora
Download Nightly.
Mind you..these all are 32-bit builds..
What most of us don't know is that apart from the normal version of Firefox(what most of us use) there are several other versions available that are not advertised anywhere. There is a reason behind it...these builds are not stable and may have some crashing issues. But these are too slight for general everyday users like us and surely we must give them a try.
We all know about 64-bit software these days...Photoshop has a 64-bit version, WinRAR has a 64-bit version and even flash has a 64-bit edition. These versions utilize the full capacity of your processors and give you improved speed and efficiency.
SO WHY NOT WITH A BROWSER?
We use Chrome, IE and Firefox...but all of them are 32-bit versions...if you run the Task Manager of Windows then too the chromes process is named as "chrome*32.exe"
Similar is the case with Firefox.
THANKFULLY, being an open source software developers have released a 64-bit flavor of the browser as well.
It is known as "WATERFOX".
You can download it from here and believe me you will notice the change in speed.
DOWNLOAD LINK.
Don't worry it uses the same profile as the firefox browser and none of your data will be lost. :-)
For even enthusiastic readers, here are few more releases of firefox...
Download Firefox beta
Download Aurora
Download Nightly.
Mind you..these all are 32-bit builds..
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