Posted on 08/21/2009 12:37:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google engineers have been beavering away at a 64-bit version of the company’s Chrome browser for the Linux platform.
According to Chrome developer Dean McNamee, Mountain View’s V8 team has been tinkering with a Chromium Linux 64-bit for several weeks now. V8, in case you were wondering, is the web kingpin’s JavaScript engine.
McNamee said in a mailing list post yesterday that Google had done “some amazing work this quarter building a working 64-bit port.”
Google has shared instructions with programmers to build a 64-bit version via Chromium, its open source browser project.
Some might be surprised to see Google forging ahead with the Linux rather than Windows platform when it comes to developing a 64-bit version of the browser.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
fyi...Chrome for more than just mobile devices?
hhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm
More than Netbooks are being targeted here.
It’s been available for Windows for some time now.
Tried it, didn’t really like it. Back to Firefox for me.
That's not what I think it is , is it?
It’s Brit talk.
The 64-bit version? I don't think so
FWIW:
Join us in an open-source browser project to help move the web forward
Wouldn’t think it’d result in a 64-bit browser if so, but you never know.
From what I read that is a 32 bit version.
Correct, it’s 32-bit. I was responding to your comment that seemed to imply that Chrome was just for mobile devices up until now.
See above post.
Tried Chrome for Windows, love it, it’s my browser of choice for several months now.
Time trials I have seen of it and all the other browsers have shown that that it is much faster than Firefox. Only Safari for Windows is very slightly faster, but the UI of Safari for Windows is not as friendly, IMHO, as Chrome, so I use Chrome.
I just went to the Chromium page, and find no downloads for Linux at all. Am I missing something?
No disrespect intended, but why in the world would someone on a stable and secure operating system, voluntarily decide to use a browser from of all companies ... Google?
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