For one, I don't want you to try to determine what might be relevant to me, just show every result that might be useful and let me decide. It is really sad that they are making so many anti-consumer, anti-small business changes to how they display results. And this is just as relevant on the east coast as it is in the Midwest and on the west coast. Many times, 90% of business in town will not be shown, period, especially if they are small businesses. Sometimes to the point where they are useless. Have you tried doing any sort of map searches for businesses(or other organizations) relevant to your needs in your area? Try doing it with business that you are very familiar with in your community, and you will see just how bad things have gotten. A fact made ever more relevant by Google's move to link chrome extensions to individual accounts. If you ask me, the quality and usefulness of Chrome is on the decline, as are many other Google services. If the app is installed through the package manager, it should detect the dependency and install the 32-bit libraries automatically. Some 32-bit apps rely on external libraries, so you may have to manually install the 32-bit versions of these libraries to make the app work. Some non-open source apps (some Humble Bundle games, for example) don't have 64-bit versions, but they still work fine. You can run 32-bit apps on 64-bit Linux just fine, but since the apps in the repositories tend to be open source, there's generally a 64-bit version of everything, and the 64-bit versions are installed by default. If only there were some way for users to download a fat version of a website onto their computer, one they could give more access to because it lives locally, and doesn't require any browser plugin to make work. AND, from my understanding, that doesn't even let you leave their sandbox (unless you want to write all of Battlefield 4 in Pepper) Now, you need NPAPI for most browsers, and Pepper for Chrome. In old days, you needed an NPAPI plugin for most browsers, and an ActiveX plugin for IE6. It feels like yet another case of Chrome being the new IE6. We definitely need something more secure for that (I'm reminded of those horrendous security flaws in UPlay's browser plugin), but in terms of cross-platform support, it's just not there right now. NPAPI might be old, insecure, and named after an archaic browser, but what's the actual alternative here? Pepper, the API that only *one* browser is supporting? (It also happens to be the only browser that's dropping NPAPI support) Native JS is fine, but sometimes, with the user's permission, you want to access a bit more, like download updates and run programs. Ridiculous that one of EA's major game franchises would hinge on 32-bit NPAPI compatibility. I just installed it, and I guess it shouldn't have surprised me that Battlefield's Battlelog NPAPI plugin completely fails to load on Chrome now. So 64bit isn't always a net win performance wise on them, more modern CPUs (Sandybridge onwards) have no such issues so the performance argument is more persuasive in the last couple of years as fewer Core2s are around (it is very very rare to get 64bit performance regression on Sandybridge). That taken with a load of 32bit only plugins means there has been no particularly good reason to produce a 64bit version and a good number of reasons not to.Īlso, Core2 class CPUs can't macrofuse branches in 64bit code and the slightly larger code (1byte extra for any x86 instruction that uses a 64bit sized register or one of the new extra registers of any size) puts even more pressure on the already strained predecode bandwidth. However, 32bit Chrome runs on 64bit Windows/OSX (Chrome is still 32bit on OSX) just fine. I was under the impression that most (all?) Linux distros don't run mixed bitness user space so you either have a 32bit build or a 64bit one so Chrome has to be 64bit to support 64bit Linux. Why is 64-bit web browsing standard on both Linux and OSX but not on Windows? It reminds me of this Ars article from nearly 2 years ago about the lack of a 64-bit Firefox. I'm surprised Chrome wasn't 64-bit on Windows already.
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