x64 firefox and thunderbird

[miso@sushi.com]

I accidentally let Thuderbird attempt to install the latest rev to
version 1.5. In the past, this update didn't work and I spent a bit of
time getting the old version running. [Note the accident was due to me
typing and having thunderbird steal the focus, allowing what I was
typing for another program end up telling thunderbird to do the
upgrade.] This time I couldn't get back to the older rev (1.5).
Version 2.0 doesn't install on my system either.

Now to get to the point (and forgive me if this was posted already), I
found a website with firefox and thunderbird compiled for x64.

http://www.vector64.com/WindowsBuilds.html

So far, both the 64 bit Thunderbird and Firefox work, though I suspect
eventually I'll discover plugin problems with 64 bit firefox.

 

[Carol Steele]

RE: x64 firefox and thunderbird

Funny that, I have the ordinary 32-bit versions of both Thunderbird
(1.5.0.12) and Firefox (2.0.0.4) running with XP x64 without a hint of a
problem. I also ran both programs under Vista x64 (beta 2) as well. Updates
to both programs over the past 9 months have gone without a hitch.

Another problem that you will have is visting any sites which have Flash, as
there is no flash plugin yet available for 64-bit browsers.

"miso@sushi.com" wrote:

> I accidentally let Thuderbird attempt to install the latest rev to
> version 1.5. In the past, this update didn't work and I spent a bit of
> time getting the old version running. [Note the accident was due to me
> typing and having thunderbird steal the focus, allowing what I was
> typing for another program end up telling thunderbird to do the
> upgrade.] This time I couldn't get back to the older rev (1.5).
> Version 2.0 doesn't install on my system either.
>
> Now to get to the point (and forgive me if this was posted already), I
> found a website with firefox and thunderbird compiled for x64.
>
> http://www.vector64.com/WindowsBuilds.html
>
> So far, both the 64 bit Thunderbird and Firefox work, though I suspect
> eventually I'll discover plugin problems with 64 bit firefox.
>
>

 

[miso@sushi.com]

Re: x64 firefox and thunderbird

On Jul 17, 5:54 pm, Carol Steele
<CarolSte...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Funny that, I have the ordinary 32-bit versions of both Thunderbird
> (1.5.0.12) and Firefox (2.0.0.4) running with XP x64 without a hint of a
> problem. I also ran both programs under Vista x64 (beta 2) as well. Updates
> to both programs over the past 9 months have gone without a hitch.
>
> Another problem that you will have is visting any sites which have Flash, as
> there is no flash plugin yet available for 64-bit browsers.
>
> "m...@sushi.com" wrote:
> > I accidentally let Thuderbird attempt to install the latest rev to
> > version 1.5. In the past, this update didn't work and I spent a bit of
> > time getting the old version running. [Note the accident was due to me
> > typing and having thunderbird steal the focus, allowing what I was
> > typing for another program end up telling thunderbird to do the
> > upgrade.] This time I couldn't get back to the older rev (1.5).
> > Version 2.0 doesn't install on my system either.
>
> > Now to get to the point (and forgive me if this was posted already), I
> > found a website with firefox and thunderbird compiled for x64.
>
> >http://www.vector64.com/WindowsBuilds.html
>
> > So far, both the 64 bit Thunderbird and Firefox work, though I suspect
> > eventually I'll discover plugin problems with 64 bit firefox.

Only the latest rev of 1.5 caused me problems. I found others with the
same problem on some forum. Rev 2 gives me an "error opening file"
message during the install.

In any event, the 64 bit build of Thunderbird works fine. I haven't
noticed much of a difference with the 64 bit firefox.

As a rule, I don't watch flash. It is closed source. I block it with
the 32 bit firefox, but will view flash if I have no other choice. I
can't stand those stupid animated flash adverts that make the web
content hard to read.