14 DAY TRIAL // As we've reported to you yesterday, Google launched the first testing builds of Chrome 64-bit for Windows, finally giving users running 64-bit Microsoft operating systems hope for an even faster, stable, and secure experience when browsing the web.
Google Chrome 64-bit for Windows is still in development stage, so it's now available only from the Dev and Canary channels, which means that it's only natural to expect the browser to be unstable and come with some bugs.
We've already tested the new version intensively after the official launch and we can now finally give a verdict: the existing build is full of bugs, but it's insanely fast and seems to be much superior to the 32-bit version in terms of page loading times.
Google says that the 64-bit flavor is 25 percent faster than the existing version of Chrome and you can really notice the speed improvements, especially when loading large websites with tons of photos.
There are two major issues right now in this early version of the browser. First of all, the application seems to crash every time you try to access YouTube or a Flash-based website. If, for example, you pin a YouTube tab and close the browser, when you relaunch the app it instantly becomes unusable and crashes before you manage to do anything. Vine and Vimeo seem to crash as well on multiple Windows 8.1 Update machines.
Second of all, on a 1920x1080 pixels resolution, only half of the tab bar is visible to the user, while the other half seems to be pushed out of the screen in maximized mode. There's no way to fix this right now and in case you're running the maximized version of the browser you might have no other option than to get over this.
At this point, the new Google Chrome 64-bit only works on Windows 7 and Windows 8 and once you download the testing builds, they replace the version of Chrome that you're currently using. Settings and bookmarks are automatically preserved, so you don't need to back up your files before installing the new version.
Google says that the 64-bit version of Chrome comes with three major improvements in terms of speed, security, and stability, pretty much because the browser can make use of new technologies that are only available on such CPUs.
Everyone can give it a try right now using the Dev or Canary builds, but keep in mind that the browser is currently highly unstable and it replaces the existing version of Chrome running on your computer.