Google has discovered that it is working to deliver a 64-bit port of its Chrome browser for Linux users.

Chrome was released almost accurately a year ago, and is presently available in 32-bit versions for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.

But, 64-bit on the desktop is much more commonplace in the Linux world, and Google is likely to be reacting to stress from Linux users for a 64-bit release.

The move was discovered in a developer forum posting by one of the Google Chrome software engineer Dean McNamee, along with a link to build instructions for those interested in trying out the 64-bit code.

The 64-bit version under development is really a port of Chromium, the open-source code on which the release version for Windows is based.


Google said that the V8 JavaScript engine at the core of Chrome does not presently compile in 64-bit mode on Windows. Development hard works are focused on making the 64-bit version of V8 work on Linux and Mac first, but Windows support is coming.

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