{"id":67753,"date":"2014-06-03T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67753"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:39:25","slug":"chrome-64-bit-is-faster-and-more-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chrome-64-bit-is-faster-and-more-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrome 64-bit is faster and more secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s <a title=\"Google Chrome news\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/chrome\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome<\/a> browser is already quick but is about to get quicker with <strong>64-bit support<\/strong>. Google claims it is seeing a <strong>25% average increase in performance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Security will be tougher with a 64-bit version of Chrome too. Without getting too nerdy, 64-bit software allows more memory randomization, making it <strong>harder for hackers<\/strong> to steal information from your RAM.<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s not enough to get you excited, 64-bit Chrome claims to <strong>crash half as much<\/strong> as the current 32-bit version.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re brave, you can install an experimental version of 64-bit Chrome from the Canary and <a title=\"Chrome Dev Channel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/browser\/index.html?extra=devchannel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dev Channels<\/a> below. The browser is currently only available on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Since the browser is still experimental, expect to see some bugs.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Chrome Canary channel\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/chrome\/browser\/canary.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Chrome 64-bit for Windows 7 and 8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"The Chromium Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2014\/06\/try-out-new-64-bit-windows-canary-and.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Chromium Blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a title=\"Ars Technica\" href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/06\/64-bit-chrome-is-faster-more-stable-and-more-secure\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/opera-22-out-now\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Opera 22 out now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-windows-blocks-outside-extensions\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Windows begins blocking extensions outside its web store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/chrome-35-for-android-update\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chrome for Android gets undo tab close, better support for HTML 5 video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s Chrome browser is already quick but is about to get quicker with 64-bit support. Google claims it is seeing a 25% average increase in performance. Security will be tougher with a 64-bit version of Chrome too. Without getting too nerdy, 64-bit software allows more memory randomization, making it harder for hackers to steal information &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/chrome-64-bit-is-faster-and-more-secure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chrome 64-bit is faster and more secure&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":64396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2767],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionchrome-64-bit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330654,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67753\/revisions\/330654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67753"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67753"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67753"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}