Differences should be seen when you have a lot of tabs opened. For web developers it’s a huge improvement.
Randy Vogel
9 years ago
My biggest complaint is that I can’t make voice calls from Google Chat with the 64-bit Chrome … so it’s back to IE when I need that functionality. Doh!
Google Hangouts works perfect in 64-bit version and Google Chat will be removed soon. I’m using the Hangout extension to chat, call and make video conferences with it.
Am a Win 7 64 bit user
The only effect I have found of switching over to 64 bit Chrome is that it uses a minimum of twice the RAM. On a 32 bit browser the RAM used per window would top at around 125,000 K, the 64 bit on the other hand starts off at 200,000K and keeps gobbling RAM till all free RAM is used up
Madalin Ignisca
8 years ago
The difference on 64bit is on faster performance for CSS3 transitions (animations for non technics) and for javascript (main for float calculations on huge numbers). Also it can allocate a huge amount of memory for intensive apps, like some experimental new 3d gaming engines.
I understand that many people get fooled buying computers with low ram configs, but if you have like 8GB+ you don’t care about Chrome’s ram usage.
I have 16GB and Chrome uses around 3 to 4GB from my ram as I have lots of development tools in it. And for me 64 bit with the tools runs a lot more faster.
The future is on 64bit for the next years, and if you’ll want to play some of the future web 3d games, you will have no other way then to go 64bit as the 32 bit will not be able to allocate memory for the needed resources. 32bit has a big limitation on ram usage (2gb pages).
Shortly: works great and it will be only 64bit in a future version, same for the other browsers.
You mean to say you need 8+ GB RAM to use a browser!! I think you are living on a different planet.
The future may be 64 bit, I have been hearing that for a long time and it may be true but the question at hand here is if the CURRENT 64bit Chrome is better than its 32bit sibling.
The answer is simple IMO if on the same computer the 64bit browser runs slower, slows the complete comp in short performs worse than the 32bit version that lived here earlier, its isnt better. Thats even without looking under the hood, just based on user experience. Probably thats the reason why even Google doesnt offer it as the first option for download even from a 64bit OS
With 32 bit you are limited on how many resources a web application could need. Remembers, 32 bit systems locks your applications in <2GB memory space.
Anyway it's not like tomorrow you'll need 32GB ram to browse the internet, it's more a necessity for some developers today.
And it seems like only on Windows the 32 bit version still exists and is recommended. It's been years seens it's only 64 for OS X 10.8+ and for Linux.
matt dickinson
8 years ago
It uses up twice as much memory on my system in Windows 10 (by a rough check with Task Manager). I mean each process is larger and also appears to be using more overall CPU. So unless the security is that much better I don’t know that it should be recommended. It ought to be noted that Google doesn’t autodetect your system when you go to google.com/chrome and still defaults to 32-bit version (you have to find the 64-bit option by clicking farther), so perhaps they aren’t as comfortable with it.
Differences should be seen when you have a lot of tabs opened. For web developers it’s a huge improvement.
My biggest complaint is that I can’t make voice calls from Google Chat with the 64-bit Chrome … so it’s back to IE when I need that functionality. Doh!
Thanks for sharing this issue.
Yes you can with hangouts
Google Hangouts works perfect in 64-bit version and Google Chat will be removed soon. I’m using the Hangout extension to chat, call and make video conferences with it.
I have 64 bit chrome, and it does not seem to in fact have shockwave as you state in this article. I go to the website http://www.itma.vt.edu/tech/shockwave.htm and also adobe itself to test my shockwave and it doesn’t work. Shockwave itself can not be installed on 64 bit version of chrome according to this article: https://helpx.adobe.com/shockwave/kb/shockwave-player-64-bit-windows.html#main_Install_Shockwave_Player_on_a_64_bit_Windows_operating_system
Am a Win 7 64 bit user
The only effect I have found of switching over to 64 bit Chrome is that it uses a minimum of twice the RAM. On a 32 bit browser the RAM used per window would top at around 125,000 K, the 64 bit on the other hand starts off at 200,000K and keeps gobbling RAM till all free RAM is used up
The difference on 64bit is on faster performance for CSS3 transitions (animations for non technics) and for javascript (main for float calculations on huge numbers). Also it can allocate a huge amount of memory for intensive apps, like some experimental new 3d gaming engines.
I understand that many people get fooled buying computers with low ram configs, but if you have like 8GB+ you don’t care about Chrome’s ram usage.
I have 16GB and Chrome uses around 3 to 4GB from my ram as I have lots of development tools in it. And for me 64 bit with the tools runs a lot more faster.
The future is on 64bit for the next years, and if you’ll want to play some of the future web 3d games, you will have no other way then to go 64bit as the 32 bit will not be able to allocate memory for the needed resources. 32bit has a big limitation on ram usage (2gb pages).
Shortly: works great and it will be only 64bit in a future version, same for the other browsers.
Hi,
You mean to say you need 8+ GB RAM to use a browser!! I think you are living on a different planet.
The future may be 64 bit, I have been hearing that for a long time and it may be true but the question at hand here is if the CURRENT 64bit Chrome is better than its 32bit sibling.
The answer is simple IMO if on the same computer the 64bit browser runs slower, slows the complete comp in short performs worse than the 32bit version that lived here earlier, its isnt better. Thats even without looking under the hood, just based on user experience. Probably thats the reason why even Google doesnt offer it as the first option for download even from a 64bit OS
I don’t mean you must have over 8GB of ram.
With 32 bit you are limited on how many resources a web application could need. Remembers, 32 bit systems locks your applications in <2GB memory space.
Anyway it's not like tomorrow you'll need 32GB ram to browse the internet, it's more a necessity for some developers today.
And it seems like only on Windows the 32 bit version still exists and is recommended. It's been years seens it's only 64 for OS X 10.8+ and for Linux.
It uses up twice as much memory on my system in Windows 10 (by a rough check with Task Manager). I mean each process is larger and also appears to be using more overall CPU. So unless the security is that much better I don’t know that it should be recommended. It ought to be noted that Google doesn’t autodetect your system when you go to google.com/chrome and still defaults to 32-bit version (you have to find the 64-bit option by clicking farther), so perhaps they aren’t as comfortable with it.