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Chrome 39 Launches With 64-bit Version For Mac OS X and New Developer Features
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.
First, HTML5 videos. I watch a lot of lectures on Youtube, and HTML5 videos have a speed option that most lectures benefit from (30min instead of 1 hour lecture). Sure, Firefox plays HTML5 too - but not as many. Some options are not available.
Second, Flash on Firefox has been *horrible* at least for me lately (I have the latest version of everything, Windows 7 system). After the latest Flash update all I have to do to crash the Flash plugin is right-click over a Flash area. And it's been crashing a lot for me for a long time.
On the other hand, (from a user point of view, not web developer) I often run across bugs in Chrome while the same doesn't happen (to me) with Firefox. So if I could I'd stay with Firefox.
I think as a web developer, especially when you develop modern apps and not just intranet enterprise apps (that are very conservative in what functions they use) Chrome may be more tempting at this point. I'm guessing - I only develop those "boring" apps where the intelligence is in the business logic and on the server and I don't need to do as much in the browser.
Mainline Firefox will drop support for your OS at some point too. There'll probably be a project like TenFourFox for older Intel-powered Macs, though.
Each web tab runs in its own process; you can see the CPU, Memory, per tab. Use: More tools > Task Manager
Looks like Chrome removed the FPS column
The Macbook Pro 1,1 has a 32-bit CPU.
Safari now does this in Mac OS X Yosemite 10.01, each website has it's down process named after it that shows up in the Operating System's activity monitor.
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It's not my computer. Are you illiterate?
While us Linux folks got shafted with the loss of NPAPI support earlier this year, it appears that the Windows and Mac folks still have it.
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop for them Maybe then we'll see PPAPI versions of common browser plugins.
When you go to google.com/chrome , it will detect your OS and provide you with a appropriate link. however, if you want the 64-bit version of Chrome, you have to click the link below the download link to manually switch it to the 64-bit. Also, very little changes to the page, so it doesn't look like it changed anything when you select it
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.
What about those of us that are still running Mac OS 7?
I think you've got bigger issues....Very few things still support Mac OS. I don't think Firefox or Chrome ever ran on even on OS 9.
I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
Then you're yelling at the kids "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!
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