Google Chrome: Comes to an end support on Linux 32-bit
Google announced that support for Chrome on Linux 32-bit end within a few months. The only way to continue using it will upgrade the hardware.
Google announced that it will end support for Chrome on Linux 32-bit, Ubuntu Precise (12.04) and Debian 7 (wheezy) in early March 2016. The goal is, officially, to ” provide the best possible experience versions of Linux used ” with the web browser of course still work on Linux distro mentioned that no longer receive updates.
During the month of November, Google announced the end of support for Chrome on Windows XP, Vista, OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7 and OS X 10.8, and these operating systems are added some of the less widely used Linux distributions. The news of recent days ending work of cleaning with the latest platform of the most popular desktop environment, Linux, with the support that is coming to an end officially on distro 32-bit .
It is an error to Google? In our opinion absolutely not, so it’s strange that the company has maintained support for Linux 32-bit systems for a period of time so long. While it is true that Linux gives the opportunity to ” revive ” old computers making them usable, the other computers with 64-bit processors do not now go back to other times, and can be considered obsolete.
Require a developer to support a software on computers so old it means compromising the possible evolution instead of newer hardware. And that’s why Google is streamlining the list of operating systems supported by its Chrome, ensuring regular updates only on newer machines. If you have an older computer no shortage of solutions and alternative browsers (such as Firefox).
To continue using Chrome on Linux, the only solution is to upgrade the computer hardware so that it is compatible with the instruction set to 64-bit and install a distro 64-bit. Use the browser without applying updates is definitely not advisable, because they may be exposed forever to any security holes that will never be settled and corrected.
