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From: shrink4g on 22 Dec 2009 23:17
I just upgrade to 64 bits W7 and looking for couple of programs:
automatic defrag and web browser.

In the previous OS, I have used IOBit & Firefox. They perform well for
what they do in the 32bit world. Unfortunately these program do not
exist in 64bits, I have searched. I would be glad to hear your
recommendation. Thanks.
From: VanguardLH on 22 Dec 2009 23:52
shrink4g wrote:

> I just upgrade to 64 bits W7 and looking for couple of programs:
> automatic defrag and web browser.
>
> In the previous OS, I have used IOBit & Firefox. They perform well for
> what they do in the 32bit world. Unfortunately these program do not
> exist in 64bits, I have searched. I would be glad to hear your
> recommendation. Thanks.

Why do you think they must be 64-bit programs? You think the hard drive
suddenly changed from some 32-bit interface to a 64-bit interface? Why does
it matter if the web browser is a 32- or 64-bit application? You think it
matters to the web sites to which you connect?
From: Carl Kaufmann on 23 Dec 2009 00:01
shrink4g wrote:
> I just upgrade to 64 bits W7 and looking for couple of programs:
> automatic defrag and web browser.
>
> In the previous OS, I have used IOBit & Firefox. They perform well for
> what they do in the 32bit world. Unfortunately these program do not
> exist in 64bits, I have searched. I would be glad to hear your
> recommendation. Thanks.

MyDefrag (http://www.mydefrag.com/) has 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
The installer automatically detects which is appropriate.

64-bit builds of Firefox exist (http://www.mozilla-x86-64.com/), but
most likely you really don't want one since there are very few 64-bit
plugins available.
From: Carl Kaufmann on 22 Dec 2009 23:58
shrink4g wrote:
> I just upgrade to 64 bits W7 and looking for couple of programs:
> automatic defrag and web browser.
>
> In the previous OS, I have used IOBit & Firefox. They perform well for
> what they do in the 32bit world. Unfortunately these program do not
> exist in 64bits, I have searched. I would be glad to hear your
> recommendation. Thanks.

MyDefrag (http://www.mydefrag.com/) has 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
The installer automatically detects which is appropriate.

64-bit builds of Firefox exist (http://www.mozilla-x86-64.com/), but
most likely you really don't want one since there are very few 64-bit
plugins available.
From: shrink4g on 3 Jan 2010 22:37
On 12/22/2009 10:52 PM, VanguardLH wrote:
> shrink4g wrote:
>
>> I just upgrade to 64 bits W7 and looking for couple of programs:
>> automatic defrag and web browser.
>>
>> In the previous OS, I have used IOBit& Firefox. They perform well for
>> what they do in the 32bit world. Unfortunately these program do not
>> exist in 64bits, I have searched. I would be glad to hear your
>> recommendation. Thanks.
>
> Why do you think they must be 64-bit programs? You think the hard drive
> suddenly changed from some 32-bit interface to a 64-bit interface? Why does
> it matter if the web browser is a 32- or 64-bit application? You think it
> matters to the web sites to which you connect?

Sorry for replying late... due to issue i have with the PC.

Since the OS is 64bit, I would like to have programs run in their native
environment to avoid incompatibility issue. Wouldn't you think this is a
good starting point? Anyhow someone here did say 32bit FF can work
perfectly well with 64bit OS. So I did give it a try, and to be honest I
had not run in any problem so far. To your questions concerning the
browser, agree 32bit would do the job. I am not so sure that your
argument would well fit other programs.
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