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Comment by spullara | Hacker News Reader

Chrome is only 32-bit? Apparently, yes, at least on the Mac. The issue has been open for 3 years:

"Snow Leopard will be released in less than 2 months. I believe we should start testing a 64bit version of Chrome so it can be ready when SL ships."

Chrome and Dropbox are the last non-64bit process on my machine.

Their argument is YAGNI.

On that issue, don't even get me started with Firefox not having a 64bit version in Linux (not built by the distros)

YAGNI is that kind of dismissive argument that it's not even funny

So then if Apple/MS/a linux distro or somebody else shuts down 32-bit binaries they'll be coming with millions of excuses for their incompetence

Firefox does have an official 64 bit release for Linux since a while:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/16.0.1/linux-x86_64/

Will try this later, as I had to install several 32-bit libs to use the 32-bit version on Fedora 64-bit

Not the worst argument, given that each Chrome tab is its own process.

> Not the worst argument

It is when it's the only process requiring and loading up a slew of 32-bit dylibs.

That's only true if you have a small number of tabs open.

And if none of them were opened using window.open.

And a bunch of other restrictions.