Guest miso@sushi.com Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 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.
Guest Carol Steele Posted July 18, 2007 Posted July 18, 2007 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. > >
Guest miso@sushi.com Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 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.
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