Thunderbird should suggest x64 when installing x32 on a 64-bit machine
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(Thunderbird :: Installer, enhancement)
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(Reporter: tlhackque, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/94.0.4606.81 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
I've had TB for a long time - since before there was a 64-bit version.
Updated many times - TB, and the hardware it runs on. My last several machines have been 64-bit, as has been the OS (Windows).
Actual results:
All updates have been to the 32-bit version. TB installer never asked if the 64-bit version should be installed.
Expected results:
TB installer, when running on 64-bit hardware, should suggest installing the 64-bit version.
I only noticed because someone working another bug said he's in the same situation.
Hopefully by now, there's no good reason to stick with the 32-bit version, since other changes have driven extension upgrades.
I'm not saying "force update to 64-bit", but there should at least be a prompt along the lines of "You're installing a 32-bit version of Thunderbird on a 64-bit platform/OS. Do you want to install the 64-bit version instead?"
Perhaps only asking on a major version update - I suppose some people who want to stick with 32 bits (like extensiond developers who test on 32-bit TB) might be annoyed if asked too often.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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Basically dupe of bug 634233.
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