Chrome, Google browser, changing very rapidly. Expected soon version 3.0 and 4.0 mill is already in preparation. If Chrome is the official part of the project, Chromium is the open source base, one on which MSW developers and contributors third before end users do not see the changes. And it may well be the second Chrome browser after Internet Explorer to offer a 64-bit.
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Dean McNamee, a developer, reports that in fact the team responsible for V8 worked during this quarter to produce a 64-bit version available. Recall that V8 is the name of the JavaScript engine for Chrome Chrome-specific, the company has chosen to create its own virtual machine for executing scripts rather than use one attached to this WebKit and also in Safari (SquirrelFish) .
The first valid version of V8 has created a first version of Chrome 64-bits. Warning of course, it is unstable and is only a first test viable. This version is available for Linux and the easiest to install is for Ubuntu users. Installation instructions are also data on this page with the commands to run for versions of the distribution between the 8.04 and 9.10.
The developers also provide build instructions for users of other distributions that would try to Chromium 64 bits.
Testers adventurers will normally a new "build" each day, because the work is sequenced to quickly stabilize the grinding bit 64. Contrary to everything that had been so far, so the version that boots Linux support a technology while the emphasis was largely placed on the Windows version.
Now the question is how long this development will last and what are the platforms involved in priority. Surprises can always happen, and we also recall that Mozilla has announced that the first 64-bit version of Firefox is designed to ... Mac OS X. The publisher will indeed enjoy the arrival of Snow Leopard (which comes this Friday, August 28) to engage in 64-bit.
Paradoxically, Windows is by far the largest market share, but the 64-bit is not really widespread. Blame it on Microsoft and its choice not put a DVD in 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate, the other to go online to order. However, since the beginning of the year, a growing number of manufacturers chose to put 64-bit Vista on its machines, and all editions of Windows 7 will be provided with two DVDs. The 64-bit should grow broadly in the Windows world and encourage developers to confront it more. Understandably, however, that this is not a priority for third party publishers, Microsoft barely starting to set an example with the arrival of Office 2010.
