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!"

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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.