Chromium popularity rising on Ubuntu, gains 64-bit support

“In a message posted to the Chromium developer list late last
week, Google software engineer Dean McNamee revealed that 64-bit
compatibility had been achieved and that official builds could be
coming soon. He also posted a link to a page at the Chromium wiki
which provides simple compilation instructions.

“”The v8 team did some amazing work this quarter building a
working 64-bit port. After a handful of changes on the Chromium
side, I’ve had Chromium Linux building on 64-bit for the last few
weeks,” he wrote. “I believe mmoss or tony is going to get a
buildbot running, and working on packaging.”

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