[tor-bugs] #13685 [Tor bundles/installation]: Transition away from 32bit OS X Tor Browser builds

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#13685: Transition away from 32bit OS X Tor Browser builds
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     Reporter:  gk                        |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  task                      |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal                    |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor bundles/installation  |    Version:
   Resolution:                            |   Keywords:  tbb-4.5-alpha
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Comment (by mikeperry):

 I had forgotten the history in this ticket before posting this on tbb-dev:
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tbb-dev/2015-March/000250.html.

 It sounds like 5-6 months ago, our plan was to update 10.8+ MacOS users
 automatically, because we knew for sure they would be 64bit.

 However, it while looking up info while writing that mailing list post, I
 found at least one page that says that 10.6 and 10.7 machines should be
 able to execute 64 bit apps even while running 32 bit kernels:
 http://appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/28/road_to_mac_os_x_snow_leopard_64_bit_to_the_kernel

 Is that true? Should we try to be smarter about detecting if the CPU can
 actually do this? Or is this likely to be risky?

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