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Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features

Posted by Soulskill on from the almost-over-the-hill dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today released Chrome 39 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest addition in this release is 64-bit support for OS X, which first arrived in Chrome 38 beta. Unlike on Windows, where 32-bit and 64-bit versions will both continue to be available (users currently have to opt-in to use the 64-bit release), Chrome for Mac is now only available in 64-bit. There are also a number of security fixes and developer features. Here's the full changelog.

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  1. Re:So the only people that are hurt by Pope+Hagbard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The Macbook Pro 1,1 has a 32-bit CPU.

  2. Should have been 64-bit from the start... by KonoWatakushi · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If only Apple had postponed the Intel transition for about 6 months, their machines and software could have been 64-bit across the line, and this mess would have been avoided completely. Instead, we are eight years into yet another transition, with plenty of legacy 32-bit software out there, any of which require an entire duplicate set of shared libraries to be loaded.