Updates to Google Chrome Linux support

[Dirk Pranke]

Hi Everyone,

To provide the best experience for the most-used Linux versions, we will end support for Google Chrome on 32-bit Linux, Ubuntu Precise (12.04), and Debian 7 (wheezy) in early March, 2016.  Chrome will continue to function on these platforms but will no longer receive updates and security fixes.

We intend to continue supporting the 32-bit build configurations on Linux to support building Chromium. If you are using Precise, we’d recommend that you to upgrade to Trusty.

Kind Regards,

-- Dirk

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[mari...@gmail.com]

Hi,

It seems that this process has already being executed, since I can't find any 32-bit DEB or RPM packages if I try to download them from https://www.google.com/chrome, even though the options to select those platforms are still showing up in the popup dialog that you get when clicking on the "Download" button.

I assume this is expected as per this previous announcement from November, and the the 404 errors when trying to download them are just the result of a temporary situation but still I have a question:

Will Google still maintain "archived" versions of Chrome 32-bit available to download from some place after this point? (Something like snapshot.debian.org, but for Google Chrome packages)

I know it's good to encourage people to use up-to-date software, but still I'd like to know if this would be an option or if 32-bit Chrome is gone for good.

Thanks,
Mario

[Dirk Pranke]

I think we are indeed in the process of rolling out the updated pages and there

are some issues like you cite below (see crbug.com/564194).

There are no plans to keep a public archived version of 32-bit Chrome available

that I know of at this time.

-- Dirk

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[mari...@gmail.com]

El jueves, 3 de marzo de 2016, 17:31:42 (UTC), Dirk Pranke escribió:
> I think we are indeed in the process of rolling out the updated pages and there
> are some issues like you cite below (see crbug.com/564194).

Ah! Good to know, thanks for the link,

> There are no plans to keep a public archived version of 32-bit Chrome
> available that I know of at this time.

Thanks for confirming. I did not have many hopes, but had to ask anyway.

Mario