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Google To Auto-Migrate Some Users To 64-bit Chrome
Google says it will automatically upgrade the version of Chrome that some Windows users are running, in what it describes as a bet to improve stability, performance, and security. From a report on ZDNet: In a blog post on Tuesday, the search engine giant explained that Chrome users running 64-bit Windows with 4GB or more of memory will be automatically migrated to the 64-bit version of Chrome if they are running the 32-bit version.
what a load of crap.
Chrome is Chrome is Chrome. Moving to 64 bit makes sense simply because of memory management issue. My current Chrome usage of RAM is well over 4 GB (lots of windows open), and I suspect that most people are using way more RAM than they think.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Try using quotation marks, it will suggest a correction, but you will get results for your search term.
Address space layout randomization. To make it harder for buffer-related exploits to actually start executing arbitrary code, the memory pages get shuffled around at startup so all the memory addresses are different each time. This still works with a 32-bit address space but there's less total space to use, so with some brute force (eg. really long NOP slides) you can overcome ASLR. With a 64-bit address space, odds are a random jump won't even hit a valid memory address.