grecop.blogg.se - Upgrade chrome

These are development versions of chrome which can co-exist with released chrome versions. If you really want both, you can install chrome again from canary or dev channels. Google doesn't let you install both 32 bit and 64 bit chrome versions at the same time.You can verify the 64 bit installation by opening chrome and loading "chrome://chrome".

Run the downloaded installer and follow the instructions that comes up. To install, just visit this 64 bit chrome download link and click the download button. If you already have the 32 bit version on your PC, chrome installer will overwrite the files and replace it with the 64 bit version. If you are newly installing chrome or want to upgrade from 32 bit to 64 bit, both involves installing the 64 bit version. To find out, right click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". Important: You can only install the 64 bit version if you have a 64 bit version of windows.

More Stable - Crash rates of the the renderer which handles web content are almost half compared to 32-bit Chrome.

Better Performance - Decoding performance on YouTube (HTML5) improves by about 15% in 64 bit chrome according to Google.

More Secure - By using some of the security features only available in 64 bit windows, 64 bit Chrome is more secure.

(25% speed improvement according to lifehacker)

Faster - Taking advantage of 64 bit computing computing capabilities make 64 bit chrome faster compared to it's 32 bit peer.

Here are some reasons that will tempt you. Now that Google has released a 64 bit version of chrome, it makes much sense to upgrade. Also the chrome website by default shows the 32 bit download link. Windows was always third priority for Chrome developers and hence almost any windows user as of this writing should be on 32 bit chrome. Linux was the first to get a 64 bit version of Chrome followed by Mac.