Google Chrome on Linux is getting a big upgrade
Google Chrome on Linux is getting a big upgrade
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Publish Date: 2026-03-12 17:23:00
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Google Chrome has been a first-class web browser on Linux for years, but there has been a problem over the years: no Chrome builds for Raspberry Pi boards and other ARM hardware. That’s finally changing.
Google has announced that Chrome for ARM64 Linux will be available in the second quarter of 2026, so sometime between April and June. This comes after ARM-native Chrome arrived on macOS in 2020, around when the first M1-powered Mac computers hit store shelves, and the ARM Windows version showing up in 2024.
Builds of the open-source Chromium browser have been available for ARM Linux for years. However, Chromium isn’t exactly the same as regular Chrome—you usually can’t synchronize it with a Google account, DRM playback is limited, and there are other assorted issues. Now that official builds of Chrome will be available, the browser can work exactly like it does on Windows, macOS, x86 Linux, and Chromebooks.
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