Chrome Sandbox Builds On 64bit

A recent change to the Chrome browser allows the sandbox to build on 64bit Windows.

64bit Chrome for Windows has gotten much more progress over the last month or two compared to the relatively stagnated development we’ve seen. Chrome being 64bit will bring significant gains to security (through improved ASLR) and potentially give it a performance boost.

64bit support for Chrome has been one of themost highly demanded features by users, with the bug report garnering a full 847 “stars” to date.

Firefox has its own 64bit versions, which are considered unstable and part of the “nightly” branch. The project to support 64bit has been halted as the developers stated gains in performance were not significant compared to the cost of development. Many users don’t realize that switching to 64bit will not instantly improve performance, especially for a complicated program such as a browser, which handles very complex data structures.

Nevertheless, 64bit is clearly where software is headed. It’s unclear how much longer a stable build will take, but it’s great to see more progress in this area.