For some reason i never noticed i have the 32 bit version till today, i’m planning to upgrade it.
Not sure what exact improvement i will see but i don’t see why not, though i am a bit concerned about losing my bookmarks and preferences.
Your thoughts?
This will let you not lose anything of your browser when reinstalling it: Firefox Sync - Wikipedia
not loose anything, but its worse than google spying on your internet behavior
I was having problems with my 32 bit version last year - seemed like there was a memory leak somewhere, and it would get to the point that pages would just freeze for a while, and I would have to stop and restart Firefox to clean it up. I switched to 64 bit and the problem went away. The only problem I have had so far is that the DLink web software will only work with a 32 bit version of any of the popular browsers.
As far as your concerns, I export my bookmarks to an external file every couple months or so. Lately, I have taken to backing up my entire ‘apdata’ folder to the cloud once a month. That way I have backup copies of everything, and since I use Thunderbird to download all my email to my PC, that includes all my mail as well. But as I remember it, I didn’t have to do anything to bring over my bookmarks, browser history, and all my cookies. Have fun, and enjoy the improved performance.
I used firefox for many years but several years ago when the devs got fixated on “less is more” and converting firefox into a chrome wannabe I switched to Pale Moon as my pc browser. It was forked from firefox before they destroyed the gui. If I remember correctly it can import bookmarks. I run it on my Bluestar (arch linux) and really like it.
Pale Moon home page
Pale Moon on Wikipedia
I dislike Chrome so much I rooted and uninstalled it from every android phone I’ve owned. Why is that pile of …. so popular?
Because it has extremely good performance, supports pretty much all web features, has great security, and links everything you need to a single google account.
Extensions, google drive, gmail, passwords, remote desktop, and a hundred other things.
Log into google anywhere in the world and it’s exactly like working from home.
And also, unlike other browsers it doesn’t try to optimise everything for extremely low spec laptops and computers some people have, if you have a powerful computer google chrome can actually use it to it’s full potential, with very good multithreading, ram page caching, and tons of other stuff. Why use a browser optimised for a potato if you have a powerful PC? 
Google spies on your regardless of what browser you use… and there are far more people spying on you than just google.
If you are concerned about spying then you might want to unplug your ethernet cable and destroy your phone, because that’s the only way to stop it.
You can backup your bookmarks by exporting the file to your pc before upgrading to 64-bit but you need to bookmark your current tabs first so you can load those tabs after the update (Opened tabs dont get exported).
64-bit handles multiple tabs better but the youtube vids still sucks. It takes ages to load. (I use Chrome for youtube vids)
That’s your opinion. My opinion is Chrome is overrated over-hyped and lacking customization options. It looks out of place in my preferred desktop environment and I don’t like having some major corporation dictating how my browser should look or how I should use it. If you like it good for you. In my experience it is no faster than Pale Moon and is in many ways inferior. But please, feel free to praise the perceived greatness of chrome. If enough people do so one day it may be our only option.
There are tons of customization options, you can change the design to modern by enabling material design features in the ://flags settings, and there are hundreds of thousands of chrome themes for free that take 3 seconds to download, or you can even use a free extension to make your own.
You can take a look at performance benchmarks anywhere online and it’s always in the top few.
Nobody other than your imagination is limiting what it should look like or how you should use it.
“lacking customization options” lol, sure, clearly you have no idea about the thousands of flags, experimental features, extensions, custom plugins, or even code your own addons by enabling dev mode if you like customization that much.
It will also never be the only option because people will always make open source browsers.
From what I can tell from your post, it seems like you are either very closed minded, or you have never used chrome in the past half decade…
Enderman, I see you’re into Chrome and thought you might have the answer I’ve been looking for. How do you limit or prevent the tabs on Chrome browser from getting too compressed when you have 40+ tabs opened? That’s one of the reason I don’t use Chrome as my main browser.
Many ways actually: Dealing with Google Chrome's Tab Overflow issue - gHacks Tech News
- open less tabs (if you make folders in your favourites bar and put your shortcuts in there, you can easily open all those shortcuts at once by middle clicking the folder)
or - use browser extensions to prevent them from getting compressed, here is a bunch of good ones, pick the one you like best: Chrome Tabs Shrink Too Small? Try These Extensions. | SheepTech
or enable stacking tabsnvm, option removed
Here are more extensions you can choose from:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbolifaimnlloiipkdnihall?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toomanytabs-for-chrome/amigcgbheognjmfkaieeeadojiibgbdp?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/list-opened-tabs/nkaliaagdnbgadcpnkdbmnigkalbihlb?hl=en
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl?hl=en
^this last one looks really good
Hope that helps
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I do use sync but it says its not signed in, bloody hell, the last time this happened it replaced all my bookmarks with an old version and i’m not even sure how long ago it stopped syncing [argh]
Why is it worse then google spying?
I’ve noticed that memory problem as well, especially with the screen blanking every now and then when firefox has been running too long (RAM usage gets to ~2.5GB for firefox). If this fixes it i am very happy
I dislike chrome and don’t want to use it. If others want to good for them.