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Mozilla has released Firefox Developer Edition 38, which includes a 64-bit version of its browser for Windows surprisingly, adding to the officially supported Mac OS X and Linux platforms. The 64-bit version of Firefox brings significant enhancements over the 32-bit version, including the capacity to run bigger applications, speedier execution and expanded security. "For a portion of the biggest of these applications, a 64-bit browser implies the contrast between whether a game will run," Mozilla says. 4GB isn't as far as possible worth recollecting: Heap sizes, for instance, are prescribed to be 512MB in a 32-bit browser, while they can go up to 2GB in a 64-bit version of Firefox. With respect to execution time, Mozilla says 64-bit Firefox is faster in light of the fact that it can get to new hardware registers and instructions. This fundamentally accelerates how rapidly JavaScript code can run. The expanded location space additionally lets Firefox use hardware memory