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primmer10590

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Nov 30, 2017
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Anybody noticed this? Super unstable. Just got the new MacBook Pro.

Feeling buggy. Chrome has crashed twice in 10 minutes and Spotifiy once.
 

Wortak

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Nov 16, 2020
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Chrome (release version) and Spotify are not supported by Rosetta yet (as many other software). There is a new Chrome beta though which at least shouldn’t crash at start.
 

grmlin

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Chrome (release version) and Spotify are not supported by Rosetta yet (as many other software). There is a new Chrome beta though which at least shouldn’t crash at start.
what does that mean? I though Rosetta 2 "just works"? Isn't that the case?
 

grmlin

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I would have thought that Chrome doesn't need to support Rossetta 2. The whole point of Rosetta 2 is to run a users existing apps until they have a universal binary. Its troubling that Chrome is crashing.
That's how I understood it, too. You'll have a performance penalty, but apps run at least.
 

Xack

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Oct 27, 2016
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Web browsers are one of the most important apps to get right. Are Firefox, Edge and Opera having crashes too?
 

Wortak

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Nov 16, 2020
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Web browsers are one of the most important apps to get right. Are Firefox, Edge and Opera having crashes too?
Firefox was reported to not work properly neither under Rosetta 2, but it is being worked on. I haven’t tried it myself though.
 

MalcolmH

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Aug 8, 2020
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Chrome shouldn't have to 'support Rosetta 2'. Rosetta 2 should support Chrome. That's the whole point of it.
There’s something strange about the Chrome team hardcoding the memory page size to 4K on macOS and Rosetta can’t cope. M1 memory page size Is 16k.
 

primmer10590

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 30, 2017
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To answer questions. Running 11.0.1. Chrome is personal preference due to the cross syncing across other platforms I use. And Rosetta 2 should just work. It’s a virtualisation engine. No need for app designers to certify it to work. If it doesn’t work as intended that’s on the virtualiser not the app vendor.

And Chrome nor Spotify appear in the iPhone/iPad search results section of the App Store.
 

DemNoir

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Aug 9, 2007
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Both Chrome and Spotify are very good at supporting every platform under the sun, I would expect Apple Silicon versions very soon. It is day one of the release of a totally new platform.
 
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