A 64-bit version of the Google Chrome browser is now ready, but Windows users will still have some time to wait for their version.
In a mailing list posting this week, Chrome developer Dean McNamee wrote that the Google v8 JavaScript team have working on a 64-bit port. There are now full instructions on the Google Code wiki for Chromium on how to build Chrome for 64-bit Linux.
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I think this is only the beginning of a trend we’re likely to see over the next several months. Google’s application development for Linux has been lagging behind (SketchUp, anyone?). Their announcement of a planned Google OS—based on Linux—puts a burden on their developers to have their own applications available for their OS. Failing to have those applications ready would look rather… pathetic.
What aoubt us 32 bit guys?
Don’t worry, Mike, I’ll build you a nice 64-bit system.
I’ve been using the 64-bit Chromium dev build for a few hours now, and I like it. Nice rendering, and very small RAM/CPU footprint. It’s not exactly Google Chrome, but built on Chromium just the same.
Wait, Mike, are you saying they posted 64-bit to the exclusion of 32-bit??
I haven’t even looked into this yet, only tried Chrome briefly on Windows at work, but I should do so right now — I’m sitting at a 64 bit Ubuntu box at the moment. No time like the present!
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Mike, I saw .deb packages for i386 architecture at https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa when I downloaded the amd64 stuff. Download all the parts, then do sudo dpkg -i *.deb from the folder you downloaded them.