Chrome 37 64-Bit Now Available For Download, Offers Improved Speed, Stability And Security

After releasing Chrome 64-bit in developer and canary channels, Google has released Chrome 64-bit as a stable release. This new 64-bit Chrome offers many benefits for speed, stability and security over 32-bit version. Based on their measurements, a native 64-bit version of Chrome has improved speed on many of their graphics and media benchmarks. For example, the VP9 codec that’s used in High Definition YouTube videos shows a 15% improvement in decoding performance. Stability measurements from people opted into our Canary, Dev and Beta 64-bit channels confirm that 64-bit rendering engines are almost twice as stable as 32-bit engines when handling typical web content. Finally, on 64-bit, our defense in depth security mitigations such as Partition Alloc are able to far more effectively defend against vulnerabilities that rely on controlling the memory layout of objects.

At this point 64-bit will remain opt-in, so to take advantage of the improvements click on the new “Windows 64-bit” link on the Chrome download page. Currently, the only significant known issue is the lack of 32-bit NPAPI plugin support. The 32-bit channel will remain fully supported for the foreseeable future and we will continue to support 32-bit plugins until NPAPI is removed from Chrome.

Source: Google