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I wasn't too worried about this when i read it, but it appears the latest oracle java plugin is not supported on chrome. I get this message from the download page:

"Chrome does not support Java 7. Java 7 runs only on 64-bit browsers and Chrome is a 32-bit browser.

If you download Java 7, you will not be able to run Java content in Chrome and will need to use a 64-bit browser (such as Safari or Firefox) to run Java content within a browser. Additionally, installing Java 7 will disable the ability to use Apple Java 6 on your system."

So now it looks like I'll have to flip over to firefox if I want to use a site that requires the java plugin - kind of a nuisance.

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

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=18323

"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/

Great! But why this doesn't appear here? http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html

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.

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