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Firefox 8 releasedFirefox 8 releasedPosted Nov 11, 2011 22:30 UTC (Fri) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435)In reply to: Firefox 8 released by kripkenstein Parent article: Firefox 8 released
I mean on the main website, where it offers the newest version via the big green button... It always just offers the 32-bit one, it seems, even if I go there with a 64-bit version... It detects I'm running Linux, presumably via User-Agent, so I'd think it could detect I'm running a 64-bit version already, too... (I turned off auto-updates, so I'm not sure what it does there if running the 64-bit version...)
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Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 11, 2011 23:38 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
and especially when looking at a beta build
I actually got frustrated enough a couple of versions ago to use the ubuntu PPA and live with it updating every couple of nights because it was just too painful to track down the 64 bit build otherwise.
Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 12, 2011 18:09 UTC (Sat) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
I could be wrong, but I believe the user agent doesn't say that you are on a 64-bit browser (it does say the OS, but not the browser build itself). So I'm not sure this is possible.
Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 12, 2011 18:39 UTC (Sat) by RobSeace (subscriber, #4435) [Link]
It does distinguish... From my current 8.0 64-bit:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
And, from 32-bit 7.0 (the newest 32-bit build I've got lying around):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0
Firefox 8 released Posted Nov 12, 2011 18:51 UTC (Sat) by kripkenstein (subscriber, #43281) [Link]
Ah, interesting!
Ok, I filed a bug,
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702030
I think it's a very good idea to do this, thanks for the suggestion :)
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