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Surprise! Google Chrome goes native for Windows on Arm

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January 26, 2024

Illustration: The Verge

Google appears to be readying a version of its popular Chrome browser for Windows on Arm. X (formerly Twitter) user Pedro Justo spotted a native version of the browser for Windows 11 Arm-powered devices in the latest nightly builds of Chrome in the Canary channel.

Google’s release of a Chrome Canary version for Windows on Arm is a surprise, and we’ve reached out to the company to clarify when it plans to bring this to the stable channel. I have installed and tested the Canary version to verify it’s an ARM64 version.

Screenshot by Tom Warren / The VergeAn ARM64 native version of Chrome on Windows 11.

While Microsoft has long supported an Arm version of its Edge browser, also based on Chromium, Google has…

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