Google's killing Chrome support for 32-bit Linux machines, but don't worry: You have options.

Google announced that it will be ending support for Chrome on 32-bit Linux, Debian 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. Security fixes and updates for the said operating systems will cease in March 2016.

Google released Chrome 47 this week and announced that it will end Chrome support for older, 32-bit Linux distributions early next year.

Google will release Chrome 58.0.3029.96 in the coming days and weeks, and as part of this update, the company plans to move some of its 32-bit users to Chrome's 64-bit version.

Anyone interested the performance of Canary 64-bit Chrome compared to Chrome 35 — then the latest stable 32-bit Chrome on Windows — can check out ZDNet's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' face-offhere.

According to a latest post on Google Apps blog, the company is planning to stop developing the browser for 32-bit Mac systems starting November as majority of users are now on 64-bit systems.

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.

The end is near for 32-bit Chrome on Linux. In a blog post Google announced they will no longer support 32-bit Chrome starting March 2016.