Google Chrome goes 64-bit, improves Windows font rendering

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Google has been working on a 64-bit version of the Chrome browser for some time now, and with the release of Chrome 37 today, a stable build of the 64-bit browser has been released into the wild. For those of you on a compatible 64-bit system, the 64-bit version will offer performance improvements as well as security and stability enhancements.

Through the use of a more modern instruction set and the latest optimizations, the 64-bit version of Chrome is especially speedy in media and graphics workloads. Google is reporting that VP9 video decoding, for example, is 15% faster on 64-bit Chrome than on the 32-bit variant.

Chrome's security systems have been improved in the switch to 64-bit thanks to having access to a larger pool of memory. By randomizing the location of items in memory, bug exploits are difficult to create, and with more memory to work with, the process becomes even harder.

Stability has also been improved, according to Google engineer Will Harris. In their testing of beta versions of Chrome 64-bit, the development team discovered that the browser crashes around half as often as the 32-bit version when processing web content.

Chrome 37 also finally brings the stable release of DirectWrite graphics in the browser. This means that on Windows machines fonts will now render in more attractive fashion, reducing aliasing and blurriness in many situations.

The update to Chrome 37 will happen automatically for most users, however if you want to get the 64-bit version, you'll have to manually download the variant from here.

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I have the latest version 37.0.2062.94 of Chrome, but it is still running as 32-bit. Why is that?
 
I've been using 64-bit Chrome for months. It's been readily available to anyone who wants it. Why the big announcement now?
 
Yes, it's been released to the stable channel now so it should be production ready. With 64-bit desktops being the norm for quite some time I would assume it will become the default Chrome browser for Windows soon.
 
I just updated Chrome to version 38.0.2125.24 but it still shows as dev. No matter, I still love it.
 
Lol chrome 64 bit is the first program I have seen that installs under Program Files (x86)
 
Wierd, EMET (Enhanced Mitigation Toolkit) won't let it install. It says" EMET detected caller mitigation" Then the message "Whoa Google Chrome has crashed, relaunch?" restrying gets the same message. I had earlier had the 64 bit beta installed and never had this problem.
 
I'm surprised it has been fully launched, we're way past the mid point of 2014 and 64bit CPUs were launched about ten years ago...
 
I just installed it and font rendering looks much worse actually, it's blurry, but readable.
 
Made half of the websites ugly as hell, including this one, with blurry text.

I'm sure it's fine if you don't use DPI scaling, but for those of you who do - beware that it's far from perfect.

Downgrading to 32bit crew checking in.
 
I wasn't happy with the new fonts either. Blurry, smaller, tougher to read. I tried a solution I found on the Chrome blog.

Go to chrome:flags . Look for Disable DirectWrite and click on Enable. Relaunch Chrome.

It solved the font problem for me. (running Windows 7 64-bit)
 
I wasn't happy with the new fonts either. Blurry, smaller, tougher to read. I tried a solution I found on the Chrome blog.

Go to chrome:flags . Look for Disable DirectWrite and click on Enable. Relaunch Chrome.

It solved the font problem for me. (running Windows 7 64-bit)
I did that too now it's fine.
 
I've been using the Chrome 64-bit DEV for months now no issues with it.. I had to switch from chrome*32 was awful. Palmoon 64-bit was okay but Chrome is the one I use.
 
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