Install Google Chrome 39 (Stable) in Linux Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0

Install Google Chrome 39 (Stable) in Linux Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.


The biggest addition in this release is 64-bit support for OS X, which first arrived in Chrome 38 beta. Unlike on Windows where 32-bit and 64-bit versions will both continue to be available (users currently have to opt-in to use the 64-bit release), Chrome for Mac is now only available in 64-bit.

All Chrome for Mac users on the stable channel will be updated to the 64-bit version when they get Chrome 39, which doesn’t have a 32-bit equivalent. While Google hasn’t explicitly said so, this would seem that first-generation Intel Macs will not be able to move past Chrome 38.
As Google has shared before, 64-bit support brings speed and security improvements to its browser:

64-bit Chrome has become faster as a result of having access to a superior instruction set, more registers, and a more efficient function calling convention. Improved opportunities for ASLR enhance this version’s security. Another major benefit of this change comes from the fact that most programs on a modern Mac are already 64-bit apps.
In cases where Chrome was the last remaining 32-bit app, there were launch-time and memory-footprint penalties as 32-bit copies of all of the system libraries needed to be loaded to support Chrome. Now that Chrome’s a 64-bit app too, we expect you’ll find that it launches more quickly and that overall system memory use decreases.

The move also means Chrome for Mac no longer supports 32-bit Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plugins, although their 64-bit counterparts are supported. Google is hoping to drop 32-bit NPAPI plugin support from Chrome altogether, so this should come as no surprise, in order to “improve Chrome’s security, speed, and stability as well as reduce complexity in the code base.” read more for information about google chrome 39

To install Chrome 39 Unstable on Linux Mageia 5, Mageia 4, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.1, OpenMandriva Lx 2014.0 systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_i386 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386
sudo urpmi google-chrome-stable

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

sudo rpm --import https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
sudo urpmi.addmedia --update chrome_x86_64 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64
sudo urpmi google-chrome-stable

Optional, to remove Chrome 38 stable, from both 32 bit and 64 bit systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands:

sudo urpme google-chrome-stable

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