Currently, users can still download a 32-bit Chrome beta, if they so choose. Will Google force users to upgrade to 64-bit Chrome by mid-September? We’ll have to wait and see.

Stability: Google has observed a marked increase in stability for 64-bit Chrome over 32-bit Chrome. In particular, crash rates for the renderer process (i.e. Web content process) are almost half.

This release makes Chrome the second major browser to have a stable 64-bit version on Windows, with Internet Explorer being the first. Chrome 37 also marks the stable release of DirectWrite ...

Following release 58.0.3029.96, which is being rolled out now for automatic download and installation, Chrome will detect if it is running a 32-bit version on 64-bit Windows and check to see if ...

That includes all the speed boosts that come from a 64-bit design, which Google claims gives Chrome a 25 percent performance increase, on average, compared to the 32-bit version of the browser.

The transition to 64-bit operating systems has been a long one, but Google is about to give Linux users another push. In March 2016, Google will stop releasing Chrome for 32-bit Linux distributions.