Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit

Noam.of.Doom writes "The Google Chrome developers announced on August 19th the immediate availability of a new version of the Google Chrome web browser for Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Google Chrome 4.0.202.2 is here to fix a lot of annoying bugs (see below for details) and it also adds a couple of features only for the Mac platform. However, the good news is that Dean McNamee, one of the Google Chrome engineers, announced yesterday on their mailing list that a working port of the Chrome browser for 64-bit platforms is now available: 'The v8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port. After a handful of changes on the Chromium side, I've had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few weeks. I believe mmoss or tony is going to get a buildbot running, and working on packaging.' Until today, Google Chrome was available on both 32- and 64-bit architectures, but it appears that the latter was running based on the 32-bit libraries. Therefore, starting with Google Chrome 4.0.202.2, 64-bit users can enjoy a true x64 version!"

Comments

Chromium Not Chrome

[thejapanesegeek]

"Google Chrome" has not been released on the Linux platform yet. From the about:linux-splash on my chromium install:

Chromium is an open source browser project. Google Chrome is a browser from Google, based on the Chromium project.

And "Chromium" still doesn't have things like flash and printing, at least not in a stable, usable form.

Re:Chromium Not Chrome

[MrHanky]

Wrong. While still 'un-official', a developer preview of Google Chrome for Linux has been out for a long time, freely available. Link.

Re:Chromium Not Chrome

[Jamamala]

Chromium does have flash support if you start it with --enable-plugins. It works pretty well, although admittedly I haven't tested the latest 4.0 builds or the x64 version.

Re:Chromium Not Chrome

[pablomme]

And "Chromium" still doesn't have things like flash and printing, at least not in a stable, usable form.

Wrong about flash. Add '--enable-plugins' to chromium-browser's command line, and soft link the flash library into chromium's plugins directory (which they fail to tell you to do), e.g. in Ubuntu you would do:

  sudo ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins/

Works well, is stable and is usable, despite the warnings that it may melt your computer etc. Printing is still unavailable.

"Iron" out the privacy bugs...

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

And if we are lucky, there will soon be a privacy-enabled version here:
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php