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Vark11125-Sep-14 3:23
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The answer that you don't want to hear: It depends.

In general, use the 64 bit version because of all the reasons stated above.

However, in some cases (albeit fewer and fewer these days as 64 bit has become mainstream) the 64 bit versions will not have the same feature set as the 32 bit version. Anything with a large plugin ecosystem will generally suffer from this as the plugins will have to be recompiled as 64 bit and that's up to the plugin developer to do, not the platform developer.

ex: If you could get a 64 bit version of Firefox, but Adblock only worked on the 32 bit version, would you really want to upgrade?
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