I dont know why these kind of decisons are being taken without doing a proper analysis. Have Firefox given up the challenge and accepted the defeat already ?
@Jason Adams -- I'm in a similar mindset, but Chrome became my preferred browser over Firefox back in spring, and without adapting to 64-bit I'm afraid there's not going to be any turning back.
It's an awful decision for sure, but still a better browser than Internet Explorer.
As a developer, using Linux, the lack of support for 64-bit OS on browsers and their plugins has been a problem all along. I went to 64-bit on my desktop 5 years ago. Opera has been to only browser to keep up. Adobe development for Linux has been lethargic at best, and I see their stoppage on development of the 64-bit flash plugin is an admission that HTML5 is the future.
Firefox is my default broswer, but I keep Opera and Chome up-to-date for when firefox doesn't cut it.
I totally agree what a foolish decision. I really dont buy into the logic behind this at all. Fan based modifications are all well & good but non power users will just move to a solution that meets the need right out of the provebial "box"
Absolutely. Now to be fair there is Waterfox, which is a 64-bit fan build for Windows. But unless you're an absolute die-hard Firefox user, such a route should make you understandably wary; after all updates to that option are at the mercy of a small number of contributors who may eventually get bored w out or get too busy to kee up w the mainstream code, UI, security, and features-wise.
And for enterprise users a fan build is simply not an option; they will migrate elsewhere, likely to Chrome once it finalizes its under-development 64-bit Windows support.
Personally, being a fan of Chrome and Firefox, I think this is a terrible decision for Firefox to make. First of all, everything is moving to 64-bit, so why bother dropping it now? Second of all, there are plenty of diehard users who were crushed by the news (I know a lot of Reddit users were, that's for sure). And, when they are in pretty heavy competition with others like Chrome and IE, the last thing they should be doing is falling behind.
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