title: Chromium for Windows link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/chromium-for-windows/ author: phil2nc description: post_id: 7684 created: 2014/05/23 10:15:24 created_gmt: 2014/05/23 14:15:24 comment_status: closed post_name: chromium-for-windows status: publish post_type: post

Chromium for Windows

By popular demand, here in the link to installers for Chromium on Windows: Download latest stable Chromium binaries While Google explicitly does not support the Chromium web browser, they have in the past indicated that developers might find it useful. I like to run it on both my work and personal machines rather than the consumer edition of Chrome because (a) it is completely open source and (b) I believe it is more privacy-friendly. These developer builds are in both 32 and 64 bits[1]. The 32-bit versions of these binaries are recommended over 64-bit as more stable[2]. Also keep in mind that, as far as I know, there are no 64-bit Windows versions of popular plugins like Adobe Flash or Acrobat Reader[3]. [1] Mozilla also generates a 64-bit nightly build of Firefox for Windows. Neither Google nor Mozilla have ever shipped a general release of these Windows products in 64-bit. See this article for an update from a Mozilla spokesperson. [2] See this extended comment for more. [3] It took Adobe over three years to release a 64-bit version of Flash for Linux, once they got serious about it. The long, difficult, saga of that effort is preserved in the PenguinSWF blog.

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