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Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year

  • Sean Hollister
  • March 12, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year

You can download Chrome for Linux, and you can download Chrome for Arm devices - but if you've got a computer running Linux on Arm, not so much! Now, Google says it's finally bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux machines in Q2 2026, following Chrome for Arm Macs in 2020 and Chrome for Windows on Arm in 2024.

Why Arm + Linux now? In a blog post, Google only says that it "addresses the growing demand for a browsing experience that combines the benefits of the open-source Chromium project with the Google ecosystem of apps and features." What we're left wondering is whether Google's talking about existing demand, or demand yet to come.

There's cer …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Originally published at The Verge

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