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While I've been looking in the task manger to kill unhealthy applications, it's always pained to see a majority of applications run 32-Bit, especially the Nvidia back-end drivers. Just by looking at the task manager, current tasks like Nvidia Backend, Nvidia Network Service, all Apple applications, and 1Password run 32-Bit. The motherboard on my PC is terribly old, but Live Update 6 says I have the latest software installed besides Google things. And before I go, the part-list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Rqqc3C

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4 minutes ago, InTheAir said:

Most of the applications I run are 32-Bit on my PC, despite it being 64-Bit.

Be glad most applications aren't 16bit.....anymore

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42 minutes ago, InTheAir said:

Most of the applications I run are 32-Bit on my PC, despite it being 64-Bit.

 

Because most applications dont require the memory space of 64-Bit.

FYI In order to support 64-Bit memory allocation, it means you have to have another development stream which brings with it, its own headaches.

 

 

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8 minutes ago, InTheAir said:

Well, looking back at the task manager even Firefox is 32-Bit. I'm pretty sure that many use cases will require more than 4 GiB of RAM with any browser.

64-bit version of Firefox is availabile.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

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1 hour ago, InTheAir said:

While I've been looking in the task manger to kill unhealthy applications, it's always pained to see a majority of applications run 32-Bit, especially the Nvidia back-end drivers. Just by looking at the task manager, current tasks like Nvidia Backend, Nvidia Network Service, all Apple applications, and 1Password run 32-Bit. The motherboard on my PC is terribly old, but Live Update 6 says I have the latest software installed besides Google things. And before I go, the part-list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/Rqqc3C

Why would they need 64-bit? Do they need specialty new operation code for gaining a hint of performance increase, as they are doing super intensive task? No.

Do they need more memory? No, they are super light. Do they access specific 64-bit system files or directories? No.

 

So why 64-bit?

 

 

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Since browsers are becoming more and more powerful, I'd believe that the companies that make them would want to prepare for the future. But seeing how the 32-Bit version is listed as the base version, I might see how I could've made the mistake earlier. Oh well, might as well make the upgrade now.

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5 minutes ago, InTheAir said:

Since browsers are becoming more and more powerful, I'd believe that the companies that make them would want to prepare for the future. But seeing how the 32-Bit version is listed as the base version, I might see how I could've made the mistake earlier. Oh well, might as well make the upgrade now.

Edge is already in 64-bit if you have 64-bit Windows, but, to answer you:

It is mostly because of plug-in support, but Mozilla and Google announced that they will phase out plugins, as it was more problematic than anything. Edge already has no plugin support, beside built-in Flash (Google will probably keep Flash as exception, much like Edge).

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You can find 64bit version of most heavy load software, like GIMP. But basic software will be 32bit for better compatibility over devices.

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