Also, pro-tip: You can do the same thing with reinstallation to save downloading. That's what I did: Reinstall GW, cancel install, drop old .dat in, done.
Still surprised it took this long since 32-bit processes are limited to 2GiB address space (pointer size restrictions, among other things), with a possible increase to 4GiB if the process is large address aware. The easiest solution is to just migrate to a 64-bit build.
Although, Firefox is still 32-bit and will probably remain that way until 43+. We're eventually going to get rid of 32-bit legacy rubbish.
Now let's push for IPv6!
Sources:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778.aspxhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/6395 ... ing-system