Why is there no 64 bit Chrome?

[GWestphal]

I don't understand, this seems to be a project since 2009, 5 years late and still no 64-bit chrome? Weak sauce google. May have to move to safari full time if you can't keep up.

 

[Childs]

Out of curiosity, why does it matter?

 

[mikeymikec]

Come up with a case for why a browser desperately needs to be 64-bit.

The only reason I've heard is to address >3GB RAM, to which I wonder, "what on earth are you doing to your poor browser to require that much of it?".

"Keep up"? With whom, the Joneses?

 

[GWestphal]

Because Java is x64 and that is the common/preferred release now and it isn't supported by chrome.

 

[Childs]

I think you can use Firefox if you dont want to use Safari.

 

[BrightCandle]

It matters a whole lot less to Chrome because each page is itself a process at the operating system level. So the chrome browser itself can easily exceed 4GB in total but no one page can get beyond that.

I can understand people want 64 bit plugins, but you also have to remember that 64bit is going to cost some performance and waste some memory with a direct translation its not free to move to 64 bits. I want it to be 64 bit, but I have never run chrome out of memory, or had issues getting a plugin for it.

 

[MrChad]

Nevermind, I forgot we were talking about OSX.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Because Java is x64 and that is the common/preferred release now and it isn't supported by chrome.

Preferred release for what? Chrome doesn't need to be x64....

It's also only 32bit on Windows.

 

[mikeymikec]

Because Java is x64 and that is the common/preferred release now and it isn't supported by chrome.

I'd say that's a good reason to stay 32-bit 😛

 

[rugby]

I'd say that's a good reason to stay 32-bit 😛

Yeah, but we manage quite a few java-based VM environments with Proxmox and Chrome chokes on them. So then I need to fire up Safari to do this. Much nicer if Google wasn't so lazy and made Chrome 64-bit and gave it the ability to use the regular java plugins.