HT4759 WHy does Apple not support iCloud bookmarks for 64bit firefox?

I use 'Nightly' the "unofficial" official 64 bit version of firefox and the iCloud bookmarks plugin is not compatible. Why is this unsupported?

Follow these steps to fix the issue...
Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/icloud-bookmarks/
Right-click on "+ Add to Firefox" and select "Save Link As..."
Save the file to your desktop
Rename the file to add the .zip extension (eg icloud_bookmarks-1.4.14-fx-windows.xpi.zip)
Open the zip file
Extract the install.rdf file and open it with notepad
Remove the whole following line to allow it to work in a 64bit browser
<em:targetPlatform>WINNT_x86-msvc</em:targetPlatform>
Change the following line from...
<em:maxVersion>31.*</em:maxVersion>
to something like...
<em:maxVersion>99.*</em:maxVersion>
Save the file, and update the zip file with the one we just fixed
Delete the META-INF folder, otherwise during installation it will detect install.rdf has been modified
Rename the file back to .xpi (eg icloud_bookmarks-1.4.14-fx-windows.xpi)
Open this file with Firefox, it should install the addon fine now
Open the iCloud Control Panel settings, and enable Firefox bookmark syncing.
If you don't want to do this yourself, I've made the file available to download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/rgfodf7ualt0wdw/icloud_bookmarks-1.4.14-fx-windows.xpi ?dl=0

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