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Google Chrome For Linux Goes 64-bit

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-really-only-need-three dept.

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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  1. What a waste of resources by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on. This is Linux, not some WIMPy GUI-based OS like Winders or Suckintosh.

    I run the results of wget through a custom Perl script and then parse the results and feed image URLs back through wget and into libjpeg.

    Why do I need a bloated web browser when I have such an elegant Unix solution?

  2. Chromium Not Chrome by thejapanesegeek · · Score: 5, Informative
    "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.

    1. Re:Chromium Not Chrome by MrHanky · · Score: 5, Informative

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

  3. No One Cares What It's Called - It's Fucking Fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google really hit a home run with Chrome on Linux.

    It's as lighting quick on Linux as it is on Windows. And it's just as lighting quick days after heavy use unlike that outdated piece of crap Firefox.

    What is puzzling about Chrome/Chromium on Linux is why Google made it look like modern desktop app and not the usual 'designed by a blind person with bad taste using Windows 95 UI widgets' that appears to be the standard.