Bringing Chrome to ARM64 Linux Devices

Hackbraten

Looking forward to no longer having to patch glibc on my Linux phone just so I can watch YouTube or use Spotify.

samtheprogram

I'm confused, how does Chrome work on ARM64 Android phones today?

yjftsjthsd-h

Curious; given that ARM Chromebooks are nothing new, I'm surprised that it took them this long to ship it to other Linux distros.

emilbratt

I have been waiting... so many years for this. Like, I figured it would never come. So happy to be wrong. Wonder if it will work well on Raspberry Pi and also if it will come with Hardware Video Acceleration out of the box.

vsgherzi

a lot of people seem to not understand what used to go into running chrome on arm64 devices, this blog goes over it pretty well https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html

kgwxd

Nope. Make uBlock Origin work properly again, or gtfo of the browser market.

oofbaroomf

Wait... weren't there many ARM Chromebooks already?

cmrdporcupine

I recently switched to using an NVIDIA Spark as my primary workstation and lack of Chrome binaries for it are what finally pushed me to completely sever my relationship with Chrome and switch to Firefox. Sorry, Google. Too late! (Bonus: ad blocking properly works).

r2vcap

Cool. Let’s release Android NDK for Linux arm64 host, too.

transpute

Google will launch Chrome for ARM64 Linux devices in Q2 2026, following the successful expansion of Chrome to Arm-powered macOS devices in 2020 and Arm-powered Windows devices in 2024.. Google is partnering with NVIDIA to make it easier for DGX Spark users to install Chrome. Will be useful in isolated Debian Linux pKVM Arm VM with accelerated vGPU, in Android-ChromeOS converged desktop on Qualcomm Arm laptops. Possibly Nvidia-Mediatek Arm laptops, if they support h/w nested virt for pKVM/AVF. Android desktop mode: https://x.com/sahajsarup/status/2031963143082295610

Retr0id

I hope this means widevine builds for aarch64 linux are finally here (which is a strange thing to wish for but it will obsolete some very janky workarounds)