

He focuses on Android, Chrome, and other software Google products - the core of Android Police’s coverage. Manuel Vonau joined Android Police as a freelancer in 2019 and has worked his way up to become the publication's Google Editor. And keep in mind that if Google doesn't deem your phone ready for 64 bit, you might be downgraded to 32-bits with the next automatic Play Store update, so you could have to repeat the manual download from time to time to stay on 64 bit. Look for the version fitting your device and select one with 64 in the architecture details. If you haven't received the 64-bit variant due to lower specs or a slow rollout, you can still give it a try by downloading its APK from our sister site APK Mirror. To check which version of Chrome you have, head to chrome://version and look for the details behind the Google Chrome version number.

The move to 64 bit is more relevant on phones with more RAM anyway, where it leads to quite some improvements:įor those of you who picked up the latest Android devices (Android Q+ and 8GB+ of RAM), we’ve rebuilt Chrome as a 64-bit binary, giving you a more stable Chrome that is up to 8.5% faster to load pages and 28% smoother when it comes to scrolling and input latency. About page) – there is a 64-bit keyword next to version number.The details come as part of a blog post on all the things Google improved to make the latest stable release of Chrome perform better. Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3 WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/.120 Safari/537.36Īlternatively, browse to chrome://chrome (i.e. WOW64 indicates it’s a 32-bit browser on 64-bit platform):

If it’s a 32-bit Google Chrome installed on 64-bit Windows 8.1, the user agent string reports this (i.e. You can confirm the bit-ness via user agent string in chrome://version page: How to identify a 64-bit Google Chrome web browser? Stable and beta release of the 64-bit Google Chrome If you’re using 64-bit operating system, then it’s good to have one, to harness the improvements of this 64-bit web browser on speed, stability and security.įor those who require an alternate, offline installer, for multiple installations (to save the precious bandwidth, of course), here you go: The 64-bit Google Chrome has been available for quite some time, on both stable and beta/dev/canary channels.
