New 64-bit Firefox may be coming

Back in the 1960s, when I became a computer programmer, I recall an engineering manager commenting that the software is always at least a year behind the hardware. To a degree, that’s got to be true. If there is new hardware, with new capabilities, a programmer needs to have that hardware in hand before writing code to take advantage of it. Otherwise there would be no way to test the code and make sure it works. But “one year” is a wildly optimistic estimate. A case in point is 64-bit Intel processors. They have been available for about 5 years, and yet very few programs take... [...]