Google Chrome Is Finally Getting Native ARM64 Support On Linux

In a welcome move, Google is providing mainline Chrome browser support for ARM64 Linux distros. While Chrome already supports ARM64 and Linux to some degree via Android and Chromebooks, mainline ARM64 support has been limited to workarounds or using the open-source Chromium browser. While Chromium and FireFox are likely to remain the most commonly used browsers on Linux, the addition of mainline Chrome's security suite and extra features will most certainly be welcome.

Official Chrome support first made it to ARM-based MacOS devices in 2020, and to Windows on Arm in 2024. While Chromium may essentially be Chrome with the Google-bits stripped out, it's fundamentally so similar it's surprising that Chrome took this long to arrive on ARM64 Linux PCs and devices.

One reason for this happening now could be due to NVIDIA's DGX Spark AI small form factor computer. Per the official Google blog post ...