The move to 64-bit software has been steady (if slow), but browsers are in their own category entirely. Microsoft has been offering a 64-bit version of Internet Explorer (IE6 and up) since the release of the 64-bit versions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in April 2005. A 64-bit version of Safari is available in Snow Leopard, and Linux users can download a 64-bit version of Opera.
Chrome, however, doesn’t yet have a 64-bit version. Firefox has one, but only for Linux (unofficial 64-bit versions of Firefox exist for Windows and Mac).
So why haven’t Mozilla and Google bothered to release official 64-bit browsers? For the same reason Microsoft hasn’t bothered to produce a 64-bit version of its Silverlight plugin: nobody uses 64-bit browsers.
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