[lolo_]

I just checked chrome://chrome for updates and it confirmed there was no update and 38 was the latest, but when I re-downloaded chrome from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/ it was the 64-bit v39 - so yes you do need to install a new version!

[jey]

I doubt they'd stop updating users just because of this change. It's more likely that they roll out the auto-upgrade in stages, rather than having everyone update all at once.

[Florin_Andrei]

But that doesn't make sense - if it's true that they will not be providing a 32bit version for Mac from now on. Then most people will be stuck on version 38.

[1qaz2wsx3edc]

I had the exact same issue:

Oddly enough, chrome didn't want to auto-update to this, it was "up-to-date" at 38.x, even quitting and relaunching applied no change. Downloading a fresh `dmg` archive from https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/ applied the 64-bit update.

[TheSoftwareGuy]

When you download the new browser, does all of your preferences like bookmarks and extensions and stuff transfer over?

[1010]

As far as I can tell, once you've downloaded the 64-bit app, you can launch it instead of the older version and it's an exact drop-in replacement. For example, all my open tabs were restored in the 64-bit process, as they had been in the 32-bit one.

[millerm]

Yes.

[Raptor22]

What about if you had pages open that you don't want to lose (literally hundreds of tabs)?

[JohnBooty]

> What about if you had pages open that you don't want to lose (literally hundreds of tabs)?

There's always one of these in every discussion about a web browser. That one person who, instead of bookmarking things, keeps literally hundreds of tabs open.

(Some of my best friends are "this guy")

[coldtea]

Then you should first change your browsing habbits, and probably several other ways in which you organize things in general. And ask yourself if you really understand modern technology.

Second, you could save all the open tabs as bookmarks, with the Bookmarks -> Bookmark all Tabs command. It will save all open tabs in a new bookmarks folder.

Lastly, when you reopen the browser after the update, you can click File -> Reopen closed tabs, which will reopen all of those, even if you haven't bookmarked them.

[dzsekijo]

I use OneTab[1] to dump tab state.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

[r00fus]

Why not save open tabs as bookmark folder? Then reopen the bookmark folder as a tab-set? I know you can do this with FF (maybe +ext).

[netcraft]

you can right click on a tab to bookmark all tabs to be safe.