Chris, Do you know who controls this blog post?
https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/firefox-64-default-64-bit-windows/ The chart is really misleading. What does the vertical bar chart for "security" even mean? As noted on twitter: https://twitter.com/kylealden/status/897222041476005888 The bar chart for "crashes" at least has an intelligible y-axis, but it seems wrong. The chart shows more like a 60% improvement instead of a 39% improvement. Perhaps we should just replace this graphic with an up-arrow for security and a down-arrow for crashes? Anyway, sorry to be pedantic, but misleading charts are kind of a pet peeve. Thanks. Ben On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote: > We are on track to make 64-bit Firefox the default build for Win64 OS, > bringing improved ASLR and fewer OOM crashes to the 70% of Windows Firefox > users running Win64. > > PLANS: > > * In Firefox 55 (August 8), the Windows stub installer will default to > 64-bit Firefox for eligible users (Win64 and 2+ GB RAM). > > * In Firefox 56 (September 26), we will migrate existing eligible 32-bit > Firefox users to 64-bit. About 70% of Windows Firefox users currently run > 32-bit Firefox build on Win64. Nearly all of these users can be migrated to > 64-bit Firefox. > > Our Win64 project wiki has more details about the long road to making > 64-bit Firefox the default: > > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Win64 > > PROGRESS: > > * David Parks fixed the insidious Flash video streaming bug affecting > Xfinity and MLB! (bug 1334803) > > * Bob Owen fixed the sandbox issue that prevented 64-bit Firefox from > being run from a network-mounted drive! (bug 1377555) > > * Some highlights from week 2 of our Firefox 54 experiment comparing 32- > and 64-bit Firefox users: > > - About 8% of Windows users have <= 2 GB RAM! > > - User retention and engagement metrics (session length, # of pages, # of > tabs) are about the same for 32- and 64-bit Firefox users, regardless of > memory size. > > - 64-bit content process crash rate is about the same as 32-bit for users > with 2 GB and about 20% less with 2+ GB! > > - 64-bit browser process crash rate is about the same as 32-bit for users > with 2 GB and about 20% less with 2+ GB! > > - 64-bit plugin process crash rate is about 50% less than 32-bit for users > with 2 GB and 80% less with 2+ GB! > > We are still considering whether 64-bit Firefox should have a default > minimum memory requirement. As a placeholder value, Firefox 55 currently > requires 2+ GB, but based on the results of our experiment, we may remove > the minimum memory requirement. Microsoft's minimum memory require for > Win64 itself is 2 GB, so anyone running Win64 with less than 2 GB is having > a bad time. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
