Google Chrome 64-bit dev hits Windows 7 and 8

Google is offering early on 64-bit versions of its Chrome web browser to the full general public, via its Canary and Dev channels, for the beginning fourth dimension for Windows 7 and eight PCs. That includes Microsoft's Surface Pro tablets which use Intel'southward Core processors inside.

In a post on the Chromium blog, Google pointed out that the bulk of its users on Windows 7 have PC systems that are already capable of running 64-bit applications. These early on development versions of Chrome should have a number of improvements compared to their 32-scrap counterparts.

One of those improvements is pure speed, with the blog challenge that the 64-bit version of Chrome has a 25 percent boost in performance. Information technology should also be more stable than the 32-fleck port of Chrome, with Google claiming that crash rates have been cut downwardly by almost half.

The 64-bit version of Chrome should be more secure than the 32-fleck version. Google says:

With Chrome able to take advantage of the latest OS features such equally Loftier Entropy ASLR on Windows 8, security is improved on 64-flake platforms as well. Those actress bits as well assist us better defend confronting exploitation techniques such as JIT spraying, and meliorate the effectiveness of our existing security defense force features similar heap partitioning.

It should be noted that Windows 7 and eight users who download the 64-bit ports volition see it replace the 32-bit version if information technology is already installed. However, information technology volition import all of the older setting and bookmarks.

Naturally, there volition be a number of bugs in these early on Canary and Dev releases, and then users will take to download and install these Chrome builds at their ain risk. Even so, information technology'south likely that Google will launch the 64-chip Windows Chrome browsers to its Beta aqueduct, and finally to its Stable channel, in the near future.

Source: Chromium blog

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